September 2014 volume 18 number 1

Nonprofits navigate a changing landscape

Sun Devils collaborate to increase literacy

Celebrating ASU Gammage’s 50th anniversary

Biodesigning the future University nurtures a hive of nature-inspired researchers

President’s Letter The official publication of Arizona State University September 2014, Vol. 18, No. 1 After last May’s Spring Commencement PUBLISHER ceremony, there are now more than 380,000 Christine K. Wilkinson ‘66, ‘76 Ph.D. Sun Devils across the globe, and the ASU EDIToR-IN-CHIEf Alumni Association provides a variety of Tracy Scott ‘88,B.A. ways to stay engaged with your alma mater. MANAgINg EDIToR You’ll find alums in all 50 states and scores of Liz Massey countries outside of the United States. For the CoNTRIBUTINg EDIToR nearly 50 percent of Sun Devils who live outside Maricopa County, we have Jan Stanley ‘86 Ph.D. more than 40 geographic chapters and more than 35 international connection ART & DESIgN DIRECToR groups through which you can connect with other alums and back to ASU. Robert Cao-Ba In Maricopa County, where a majority of our alumni reside, we have SENIoR gRAPHIC DESIgNER networking and career development events at least once a month. Many Brandice Quick alumni also participate in networking and other events with our 23 academic gRAPHIC DESIgNER ASSISTANT affiliate chapters, which serve graduates of specific degree programs at the Keila DeZeeuw university. To connect Sun Devils with common ties, we also feature 14 special SALES & MARKETINg CooRDINAToR interest chapters or clubs, which represent alums from a variety of affinity Robin Hawkins segments, including the Hispanic Business Alumni, former Devils’ Advocates ADVERTISINg SALES, DIRECToR of BUSINESS RELATIoNS tour guides, and veteran alumni. Rhonda McClintock Because one-third of our alumni base is 35 and younger, we have the Arizona (480) 965-5051 State Young Alumni group, which hosts a variety of events in Maricopa County, PRINCIPAL PHoTogRAPHy from career mixers to attending professional sports events around the Valley. Tom Story Tim Trumble Andy DeLisle Through our Sun Devil Generations program, we involve children from ASU families in Sun Devil traditions. Aimed at children from birth through eighth grade, the program hosts events such as Fingerpaint the A, summertime Movie Mania, and Sparky’s Sprint, as well as the popular holiday Storytime with Sparky. ASU Magazine is printed on paper that is certified to the forest Stewardship Council® (fSC®) Standards. To keep you connected to the latest news from ASU, in this issue we take a look at how the university facilitates change in three major areas of endeavor – in the world of biodesign, in the nonprofit sector, and in educational efforts aimed at improving literacy. We also take a look at the history of ASU Gammage as the auditorium celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. It’s going to be a busy fall here at ASU – we’ll start our away-game tailgate series at New Mexico on Sept. 6. We’ll also host the Legends Luncheon during Homecoming week, which is Oct. 27-Nov. 1 this year. Whether you live close to ASU or across the country (or globe), we invite you to come back and visit us.

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20 Biodesigning the future Biodesign research at ASU, which takes place at the Biodesign Institute as well as other centers across the university, uses multidisciplinary teams that take an approach rooted in the natural world to tackle some of science’s most complex challenges.

26 Beyond the bottom line Today’s nonprofit organization faces challenges that might have seemed unrecognizable to similar groups operating 40 or even 20 years ago. Dynamic shifts are underway in the nonprofit world, and units such as ASU’s Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation are applying data-driven research to help organizations modernize their operations, and providing next-generation training to nonprofit leaders and board members.

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1 President’s Letter ASU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Christine Wilkinson discusses how the Alumni BOARD AND NATIONAL Association keeps in touch with Sun Devils living all over COUNCIL 2014–2015 the world, and provides options that keep them engaged. University News OFFICERS CHAIR 4 ASU partners with Starbucks to offer bachelor’s degree Bob Boschee ’83 B.S., ’85 M.B.A. completion options to the coffee giant’s employees; EIGHT moves its PBS operations under the umbrella of the CHAIR-ELECT Cronkite School; university ranked first in list of American Kathleen Duffy ybarra ‘81 B.A. “best buy” colleges. TREASURER Brian LaCorte ’85 B.S. 14 Sports PAST CHAIR Sun Devil athletes use lessons learned at ASU to succeed Theresa Esparza ’94 M.Tax. in life; Pac-12 Networks announce 2014-15 programming; PRESIDENT plus sports updates from track and field, wrestling, water Christine Wilkinson ’66 B.A.E., ’76 Ph.D. polo and men’s basketball. 38 Arts & Culture BOARD OF DIRECTORS* A look back at 50 years of ASU Gammage, the Ryan Abbott ‘01 B.S., ‘08 M.B.A. university’s iconic performance venue. Plus, new books by Steven Balthazor ‘91 B.S.E. alumni, staff and faculty in Shelf Improvement. Michelle Bolton ‘93 B.A. Bob Boscamp ‘69 B.A.E. Teresa Clement* ‘02 B.S.E., ‘07 Ph.D. 44 Alumni News Malissia Clinton ‘90 B.A. Bob Boschee takes the helm of the ASU Alumni Dan Mullen ‘66 B.S. Association’s board of directors, Sun Devils enjoy their Darren Skarecky ‘94 B.S. university connection with a season of activities, and the Jeff van Raaphorst ‘87 B.S. association celebrates the 25th anniversary of the ASU Anthony Valencia ‘91 B.S., ‘13 M.B.A. collegiate “Sparky” plate with a museum exhibit. NATIONAL ALUMNI COUNCIL 50 Sun Devil Network yesenia Barraza ‘08 B.S. Reports from around the Sun Devil nation. Michael Crabtree* ‘96 B.S. Eddie DeVall* ‘93 B.S. 54 Class Notes Christine Devine ‘87 B.A. Alumni news, notes and milestones. Dick foreman ‘76 B.A., ‘79 M.P.A. Michelle gettinger ‘90 B.S. John gibson* ‘05 B.S., ‘10 M.B.A. 64 Sun Devil Snapshot Bret giles ‘87 B.S. The ASU Sun Devil Marching Band has made beautiful Michael grosso ‘97 B.S. music together for nearly 100 years. Andy Hanshaw ‘87 B.S. Kristine Kassel ‘91 B.S. Danelle Kelling ‘00 B.A., ‘04 J.D. 32 Nick Kieffer ‘00 B.A. Sarah Krahenbuhl* ‘03 B.S. Words of wisdom Tere LeBarron* ‘82 B.S., ‘92 M.H.S.A. Reading and writing skills are crucial for frank McCune ‘92 B.A. success in the 21st century. But as the landscape Caleb Navarro ‘05 B.S., ‘08 M.S. of how we work – and the tools we need to do Alberto Pino* ‘06 B.S., ‘06 B.A. so – are changing, it’s becoming more and more guy Patrick Roll ‘90 B.S. apparent that many students are lagging in key graham Rossini* ‘02 B.S., ‘11 M.B.A. literacy achievements. ASU is looking to change Travis Snell ‘00 M.P.A the ending to that story-in-progress.

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Filling their cups Starbucks, ASU team up for employee

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ASU has partnered with Starbucks to provide a degree-completion program for Starbucks employees worldwide through the ASU Online platform.

Starbucks and Arizona State University recently announced the formation of the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, a powerful, first-of-its-kind program designed to benefit the thousands of eligible part-time and full-time U.S. partners (employees) of the coffee shop chain.

Starbucks chairman, president and CEO Howard Schultz hosted the first Partner Family Forum in the United States in New York’s Times Center and joined ASU President Michael M. Crow and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to launch officially the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, which will allow eligible employees to finish a bachelor’s degree with full tuition reimbursement for juniors and seniors. Through the collaboration, partners based in the United States working an average of 20 hours per week at any company-operated store (including Teavana®, La Boulange®, Evolution Fresh™ and Seattle’s Best Coffee® stores) may choose from more than 40 online undergraduate degree programs taught by ASU’s award-winning faculty, such as electrical engineering, education, business and retail management. Partners admitted to ASU as a junior or senior will earn full tuition reimbursement for each semester of full-time coursework they complete toward a bachelor’s degree. Freshmen and sophomores will be eligible for a partial tuition scholarship and need-based financial aid for two years of full-time study. Partners will have no commitment to remain at the company past graduation. President Crow said of the partnership, “ASU is pioneering a new university model focused on inclusivity and degree completion, and Starbucks is establishing a new precedent for the responsibility and role of a public company that leads through the lens of humanity and supports its partners’ life goals with access to education,” said Crow. “We are very pleased to collaborate with Starbucks, who has impressed us with its strong commitment to its employees by providing this unique opportunity for a first-class college education. ASU has the vision, programs and scale to deliver it to Starbucks employees in every part of the country.” In addition to financial support, Starbucks and ASU have developed an innovative retention model to support the unique needs of working students. Partners will have a dedicated enrollment coach, financial aid counselor and academic adviser to support them journalism education, but until now, we haven’t had the 5 through graduation. The program also will include adaptive hospital,” said Christopher Callahan, dean of the journalism learning services to help students progress at the right pace for school and university vice provost. “Now we do – a multiplatform them; networking and community-building opportunities; and media organization in one of the nation’s largest media markets.” additional resources to help students plan their educations. One new addition to EIGHT’s lineup as a result of the change To learn more about the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, will be the school’s TV newscast, Cronkite NewsWatch, which visit: http://www.starbucks.com/careers/college-plan. Starbucks’ covers public policy news around the state, will give Arizona PBS CEO Schultz also discussed the plan on Jon Stewart’s “Daily one of the nation’s only daily local PBS newscasts. The station Show” – to view the video, visit: http://news.starbucks.com/ has had a daily public affairs interview program, “Horizon,” for collegeplan/comedy-central-daily-show-howard-schultz. decades, but no locally produced newscast.

Lights, camera … education Arizona PBS moves to Cronkite school

EIGHT/Arizona PBS, the 53-year-old public television station based at Arizona State University, will become part of the university’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, continuing to provide quality PBS programming while serving as a national hub for news innovation and reinvention, the university announced over Julie Ann Wrigley has been recognized by ASU for the summer. her contributions to sustainability research and EIGHT, which includes three TV channels and the online programs. portal azpbs.org, is now the largest media organization operated by a journalism school in the world. The station previously had been part of ASU’s Office of Public Affairs. “Eight has served Arizonans for more than 50 years, providing Sustaining change important national and regional content in public affairs, ASU to honor conservationist’s education, the arts, science and culture across our state,” said philanthropic investments ASU President Michael M. Crow. “That critical mission will continue, and we will redouble our efforts to make Arizona PBS Julie Ann Wrigley remembers seeing so clearly Santa Catalina the best public television enterprise in the nation featuring all of Island from her childhood home in Newport Beach, Calif., that the outstanding PBS programming now available on EIGHT.” she felt she could reach out and touch it. She remembers the Under Cronkite, Arizona PBS also will serve as a journalistic smog taking that away from her. She remembers the many “teaching hospital.” Like a teaching hospital in medical abalone on the rocks below that house disappearing as the water education, these immersive professional programs provide grew more polluted. She says she knew about sustainability intensive learning environments for students, important services issues before they were ever called sustainability issues. to the community and the ability to experiment and innovate. “For me, it’s a second career,” says Wrigley, a co-chair on the “We have called this a ‘teaching hospital’ approach to board of directors at Arizona State University’s Global Institute 6 university news briefs of Sustainability and a longtime conservationist and philanthropist. “I spend as much time working on my world of sustainability as I spend on my other business endeavors. And to me, that’s how people can make a positive impact at every level; everyone is capable of participating.”

Wrigley’s most serious conservation concerns are for university human prosperity and well being and protecting the Earth’s life-support systems. To address them, she has increased her support of research at the ASU institute with an additional $25 million investment, bringing her commitment to the university’s sustainability efforts to more than $50 million. In recognition of her support and leadership, ASU recently announced the renaming of the institute to the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Wrigley believes the place to start solving the world’s sustainability issues is with those organizations, agencies and institutions willing to become change agents. She says ASU is one of those places that is already developing solutions to environmental challenges. While co-chairing the ASU Wrigley Institute’s board, she also helped found its School of Sustainability, the first comprehensive Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto degree-granting program of its kind in the United States. Ibargüen announces a new $250,000 grant for ASU Launched in 2007, the School of Sustainability graduates of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism now boasts 550 alumni employed in fields such and Mass Communication during the spring 2014 as government; education; nonprofits and NGOs; convocation ceremony at ASU Gammage. business and industry; recycling and waste; energy and environmental design; food and farming; finance and more. The university now offers more than 500 courses that include concepts of sustainability, engaging thousands of students. And the institution is making strides in walking the Knight Foundation president unveils new walk of sustainability. As a sample of its commitment to grant for Cronkite alumni operate its four campuses sustainably, ASU invested $52 million in campus sustainability projects in fiscal year The president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 2013, including energy efficiency, dining, transportation, announced the establishment of a special $250,000 grant for ASU renewable energy and other projects; the university’s journalism graduates to accelerate innovation in newsrooms waste sent to landfill is down 24 percent from 2007 (when across the country. measurements were first taken), despite adding Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation president and CEO, made 29 percent in space and 33 percent in enrollment through the surprise announcement during the Walter Cronkite School 2013; greenhouse gas emissions are down 15 percent of Journalism and Mass Communication’s spring convocation from 2007; and ASU has 23.5 MWdc of solar generating ceremony in May at ASU Gammage in front of 255 graduating capacity, which is more than 43 percent of the university’s students and nearly 1,700 guests. daytime peak load. Ibargüen, who leads the nation’s largest funder of journalism Wrigley’s latest $25 million investment will be used to and media innovation, said the opportunity grant would offer enhance the institute’s work understanding and teaching up to $15,000 to any Cronkite graduate working in a newsroom students about the “Anthropocene,” the current period in who proposes an innovative way to advance digital reporting and history in which human activity is increasingly impacting storytelling. the Earth’s capacity to sustain populations of all species. “We’ve been waiting for (this) generation of digital natives, “I cannot think of a more deserving person than driven to tell stories, to become the leaders of newsrooms in Julie Wrigley to have her name connected with this America,” he said, “and maybe this will help that generational great Global Institute of Sustainability,” says ASU turn go even faster.” President Michael M. Crow. “ASU and Julie Wrigley Cronkite Dean Christopher Callahan said the Knight have been dedicated partners in building the nation’s Foundation’s support will assist Cronkite alumni in newsrooms most comprehensive program in sustainability teaching, who are looking to advance the profession. learning and discovery, and we could not have done it “At Cronkite, we teach our students how to be innovative without her generous investment and leadership.” thinkers and entrepreneurs in the digital age,” he said. “This latest grant from Knight Foundation will help our outstanding alumni promote innovation in newsrooms and the media.”

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Former White professor of chemistry and biochemistry at ASU. Fromme is the senior author and leader of the international team, which House reporter to reported their work in the July 9 online issue of Nature. lead ASU media Photosynthesis is one of the fundamental processes of life on relations Earth. The early Earth contained no oxygen and was converted to the oxygen-rich atmosphere we have today 2.5 billion years ago Kevin Galvin, senior by the “invention” of the water splitting process in Photosystem communications director II (PSII). All higher life on Earth depends on this process for its at Harvard University who energy needs, and PSII produces the oxygen we breathe, which has served as a White House ultimately keeps us alive. reporter, national editor The revealing of the mechanism of this water splitting process and foreign correspondent, is essential for the development of artificial systems that mimic is the new head of strategic and surpass the efficiency of natural systems. The development communications at Arizona of an “artificial leaf” is one of the major goals of the ASU Center State University. for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production, which was the main Kevin Galvin will Galvin’s title is vice supporter of this study. lead Arizona State president for media relations “This is a major step toward the goal of making a movie of the University’s efforts and strategic communications. molecular machine responsible for photosynthesis, the process in media relations He took over the position this and strategic by which plants make the oxygen we breathe, from sunlight and communications. summer from Virgil Renzulli, water,” explained John Spence, ASU Regents’ Professor of physics, who after 12 years as vice team member and scientific leader of the National Science president is moving into a Foundation-funded BioXFEL Science and Technology Center. full-time faculty position at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of ASU recently made a large commitment to the Journalism and Mass Communication. groundbreaking work of the team by planning to establish a Galvin previously served as senior director at Harvard new Center for Applied Structural Discovery at the Biodesign Public Affairs & Communications, where he handled media Institute at ASU. The center will be led by Fromme. issues related to university management and the institution’s The recently published work was supported by the endowment. Before joining Harvard in 2008, Galvin was deputy Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the National Institutes national editor, and later technology and innovation editor at the of Health, the National Science Foundation, German Research Boston Globe, New England’s largest daily newspaper. Foundation, the Max Planck Society, the Directed Research A 1988 graduate of Emerson College who holds master’s and Development programs of the SLAC National Accelerator degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Southern California, Galvin started his journalism career at the the BioXFEL Science and Technology Center, among others. Associated Press in Boston. He later was a foreign correspondent for the AP in Latin America before moving to Washington, D.C., where he was a White House reporter, covering President Bill ASU tops international list of Clinton during his impeachment and the war in Kosovo. “best buy” colleges ASU-led study yields first snapshots of Arizona State University was ranked first in an annual list of “best buy” public schools in the United States, the United water splitting in photosynthesis Kingdom and Canada released by the Fiske Guide to Colleges. The list was based on quality academic offerings An international team, led and affordability. by Arizona State University “All of the Fiske Best Buy schools fall into the inexpensive scientists, released the or moderate price category, and most have four- or five-star results of a groundbreaking academics ratings,” according to Liz Kelsch, publicity manager for study that shows the first Sourcebooks, Inc., the publisher of Fiske’s annual college guide. snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it splits water The full top 10 list of the “Best Buys of 2015” by Fiske includes into protons, electrons and the following schools: Photo by: Mary Zhu Photo by: oxygen – the process that 1. Arizona State University maintains Earth’s 2. University of Edinburgh (UK) The Oxygen-Evolving oxygen atmosphere. 3. The Evergreen State College Complex of the Photosystem “This study is the 4. University of Florida II process cycles through five first step towards 5. Indiana University states, S0 to S4, where four our ultimate goal of electrons sequentially are 6. University of Iowa unraveling the secrets 7. Iowa State University extracted from the complex of water splitting in four light–driven, charge- 8. University of Mary Washington and obtaining separation events. The black 9. University of Maryland, Baltimore County ellipses show snapshots of molecular movies 10. New College of Florida the metal cluster observed in of biomolecules,” The Fiske Guide is online at http://www.fiskeguide.com/. this study. said Petra Fromme, Exclusive Solar Savings

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Robin Roberts to receive 2014 Cronkite Award

Robin Roberts, the Photo by: Tom Story Tom Photo by: award-winning anchor of “Good Morning America” on ABC News, will be the 2014 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Roberts will accept the 31st annual award, presented by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, at a luncheon ceremony Oct. 6 at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel. “I’m truly humbled to Robin Roberts, the award-winning Incoming CLAS Dean Patrick Kenney join the list of remarkable anchor of “Good Morning America” on is a political scientist whose research journalists who have received ABC News, will be the 2014 recipient focuses on campaigns, elections and the Walter Cronkite Award,” of the Walter Cronkite Award for voting behavior. said Roberts. “I’m honored to Excellence in Journalism. be selected and look forward to spending time with the students at Arizona State University. I know we’re all in great Leading the way hands with this next generation of journalists.” Patrick Kenney appointed dean of Roberts was named co-anchor of “Good Morning America” College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2005, leading the broadcast to the top of the morning show ratings and three consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Patrick Kenney, a professor of political science, founding Morning Program. With more than 20 years of broadcasting director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, and director experience, she has conducted interviews with newsmakers that of The Institute for Social Science Research, has been appointed include President Barack Obama, Academy Award-winning university vice provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts actor Sidney Poitier and basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. and Sciences (CLAS) at Arizona State University. From 1990-2005, Roberts was a contributor to ESPN, Kenney assumes the leadership role held previously by Robert serving as one of the network’s most versatile commentators. E. Page Jr., who is now ASU’s provost and Foundation Chair of Her assignments included anchoring “SportsCenter” and Life Sciences. CLAS is the largest college on the ASU campus, contributing to “NFL Primetime.” She also served as a contributor with more than 20,000 students and 750 tenured faculty. In his to “Good Morning America” while working at ESPN. role as vice provost and dean, Kenney will oversee liberal arts Roberts has reported on news around the globe, including a and sciences’ 60 schools, departments, institutes and centers. trip to Africa with former President Bill Clinton for a first-hand Kenney is a political scientist whose research focuses on look at the AIDS crisis. She also played an important role in the campaigns, elections and voting behavior. He joined ASU’s coverage of the 2008 presidential election and Hurricane Katrina Department of Political Science in 1986 and was named chair in in 2005. 2002. He became the director of the Institute for Social Science Recently, Roberts faced public battles with a rare bone Research in 2010. Under his leadership, ASU’s School of Political marrow disorder called myelodysplastic syndrome in 2012 and Global Studies was founded, fusing and redefining the and breast cancer in 2007. For her courageous spirit, she has study of politics, philosophy, culture, law, science and global been recognized with awards and honors, including the Susan engagement. G. Komen Foundation, the Congressional Families Cancer Kenney went on to serve as associate vice provost of social Prevention Program, ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the sciences with the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development ESPYS and the prestigious Peabody Award for “Robin’s Journey” and as dean of social sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and in 2013. Sciences in 2012, until he assumed the position of interim vice A native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Roberts graduated provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a communications degree from Southeastern Louisiana in 2013. University in 1983. Kenney received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees She is the recipient of numerous broadcast awards and is the from the University of Iowa. He has co-authored three books author of two books, “Everybody’s Got Something” and “From with ASU colleague Kim Fridkin, including “No-Holds Barred: the Heart: Eight Rules to Live By.” Negativity in U.S. Senate Campaigns.” Their most recent work together is “The Changing Face of Representation: The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications,” published earlier this year. Changing Tides ofof History c r u i s i n g t h e Baltic Sea Denmark ◆ PolanD ◆ estonia st Petersburg ◆ FinlanD ◆ sweDen June 4 to 13, 2015 Featuring Guest Speakers

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ASU’s Panchanathan appointed to National Science Board

Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, Arizona State University’s senior vice president of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development and the leader of ASU’s research, entrepreneurship and economic development efforts, has been appointed to the U.S. National Science Board (NSB) by President Barack Obama. The appointment marks the first time an American of Indian origin has been appointed to this pre-eminent board, which focuses on national science and technology policy. Drawn from industry and universities, and representing a variety of science and engineering disciplines and geographic areas, NSB members are selected for their eminence in research, education or public service, and records of distinguished service. NSB members are appointed for six-year terms. In addition to being an advisory body to the U.S. President and Congress on science and engineering issues, members of the 25-member board establish the policies of the National Science Foundation (NSF) within the framework set forth by the president and Congress. The NSF is a major science-funding agency with an annual budget of $7.2 billion (FY 2014) and the goal of promoting the progress of science; advancing national health, prosperity and welfare; and securing national defense. In addition to his work with OKED, Panchanathan is a professor ASU’s Sethuraman Panchanathan has been in ASU’s School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems appointed to the National Science Board by Engineering. He is also director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous President Barack Obama. Computing (CUbiC). Panchanathan recently was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He led a team that received two Microsoft Imagine Cup awards, and he has been chosen for the Governor’s Innovator of the Year for Academia award and the ASU Leadership Award. Sun Devils for life The ASU Alumni Association welcomes the following life members, who joined between March 17 and June 11, 2014.

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14 Conditioned for success ASU’s champion athletes say college careers led to later victories

By Joseph Healey

Former Sun Devil safety and NFL veteran Damien Richardson has traded the gridiron for the operating room.

Being a student athlete in college, particularly in an NCAA Division I school like ASU, isn’t all glitz and glamor. The lifestyle of a major collegiate student-athlete in any sport invariably consists of rigorous training routines, epic road trips, and a commitment to keep up with their academic studies. It’s a full-time commitment that can be overwhelming without the proper guidance.

Thanks to a deep trove of resources and support within Sun Devil Athletics, ASU’s student-athletes have been able to succeed during their college careers with the help of coaches, advisors, professors and teammates. Once they become alumni, members of Arizona State’s men’s and women’s teams have long been able to parlay their combination of classroom and competitive success into professional prominence after their playing days.

The doctor will see you now Boasting a bucket-list résumé that exceeds the wildest dreams of most, Damien Richardson’s professional passport includes stamps at the Rose Bowl and the Super Bowl during his football career. Now, having traded the gridiron for the operating room, the former seven-year veteran of the NFL is an orthopedic surgery resident for Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix. Richardson, who was a three-year starter at strong safety for the Sun Devils while majoring in bioengineering, was one of Arizona State’s most decorated student-athletes both in the classroom and on the field. He was a Woody Hayes National Scholar-Athlete Award recipient, a National Football Foundation Hall Scholar-Athlete winner and a GTE Academic All-District VIII selection, in addition to being recognized as a Second-Team All- Pac-10 member as a senior in 1997. practicing medicine,” said Richardson. “As Day in 1987. His career has taken him 15 a student-athlete I learned how to start from the bowl game’s MVP status to that with ‘national championship’ caliber goals of district sales manager for Medtronic, in everything I pursue and do everything Inc., a company that specializes in the possible to achieve those goals. I’m research, design, manufacture and sale of very thankful for everything ASU medical instruments and appliances. provided me.” A member of both the ASU Sports and Richardson chose to retire from Rose Bowl Halls of Fame who also works the Carolina Panthers in 2005 after he as Sun Devil football’s long-time analyst missed consecutive seasons due to for radio broadcasts alongside play-by- serious injuries. He then returned to play man Tim Healey, van Raaphorst Arizona to prepare for MCAT testing returned to ASU to complete his MBA before attending medical school at the studies in 1997. Still living and working in University of California – San Francisco the Phoenix area, he champions a winning (UCSF). Motivated by a passion for approach that all student-athletes can the involvement of statistics in medical embody to forge rosy paths to all-around research, Richardson took a hiatus from success in life. medical school in 2010 to complete a “It’s important for student-athletes at master’s degree in public health from the college level to take advantage of all Harvard University before later returning the opportunities they have around them to finalize his studies at UCSF. that can help them prepare for the future,” Through exhaustive dedication to his advised van Raaphorst. “Especially at field, Richardson now shares the same ASU, where the resources available to Michelle Estill became a sales representative for PING Golf after emotion for research and study in the student-athletes are second-to-none, a 15-year career with the LPGA. medical field as he did on the it is vital that athletes in any sport take football field. advantage of every opportunity to prepare “I got goose bumps when I stepped themselves for what they wish to pursue on the field, and now I get goose bumps when their playing careers end.” when I know I’m really helping somebody and that I’m doing the things that I’m Prepared for just about anything passionate about doing,” said Richardson. A truly passionate standard of “It’s my barometer that tells me I’m going excellence enabled Jackie Vasquez in the right direction, and that I’m doing Theodorakis to be a key performer on what I’m most passionate about.” ASU’s 2008 national champion softball team, and that outlook has continued Proven performers on and off the field with each venture she has pursued since A member of the LPGA Tour from 1991 graduation. to 2006, Michelle Estill remains tightly An all-conference honoree both linked to professional golf. She’s spent on the diamond and in the classroom the past eight years with PING Golf, during her time in Tempe, Vasquez including the past six as a senior sales Theodorakis was a recipient of the Pac-10 field representative. Conference’s Scholar Athlete of the Year Despite a collegiate career at ASU that Award following her senior season, which included a national runner-up finish at provided scholarship funding she used to the 1986 NCAA championships, Estill pursue a graduate degree in education. nearly opted for a career path outside Her commitment to service shines golf after college. She was encouraged to on as she is the volunteer manager of continue professionally by Arizona State Southern Arizona for Gabriel’s Angels, golf coaching legend Linda Vollstedt. That an organization that provides pet therapy decision paid off marvelously for Estill, to nearly 14,000 neglected and at-risk whose LPGA career netted her nearly children in Arizona. She says confidence, Jeff van Raaphorst balances work as $2 million in overall earnings, while also time management and championship a district sales manager for Medtronic developing or enhancing traits that have expectations are among the primary traits with work as a radio commentator for been beneficial in her sales career. she honed during her Sun Devil career, the Sun Devil football team. “Playing for Linda Vollstedt prepared thanks largely to the excellent tutelage me for anything in life,” said Estill. she received. He indicates that a combination of “Playing at ASU was more than golf; “Choosing to be a student-athlete at influential coaches and faculty members, athletes have different elements that drive ASU was the best decision of my life and as well as towering team standards us, and we perform differently in the work there were so many experiences about befitting the Rose Bowl squad he played place than non-athletes.” playing for a National Champion team for helped shape his expectations for Another Sun Devil who opted for a that have helped me in my life after himself in all walks of life. career based in sales after their playing college,” recalled Vasquez Theodorakis. “I had fantastic academic and athletic days is quarterback Jeff van Raaphorst, “One thing I know for sure is that I’ll experiences at ASU that prepared me who led ASU’s first and only Rose Bowl never have a boss that challenges me and very well for my career in the NFL and champion squad to victory on New Year’s pushes me as much as my coaches did at Joseph HealeyisaMesa-basedfreelance sportswriter. best mentalitypossible toward everything Ido.” guidance Ihadpreparedmetofocus, managemy timeandalways keep the “It’s helpedmeinvirtually every partofmy life;thesortoftrainingand student-athlete andhadtheopportunities IdidatASU,” confessedBrunelli. received atArizonaState. Brunelli says hewas well preparedforsuch demandsduetothetraininghe some thisbalancingactwould beimpossible, or, atbest, incomprehensible, Merck, oneoftheworld’s largest pharmaceuticalcompanies. Though for the 30-34agegroupwhilealsomaintainingasuccessfulcareerpath with “I honestly couldn’timaginemy lifenow ifIhadn’tbeenacollegiate credit analystforMerck&Co.,Inc. swimming regimenwithworkasa Nick Brunelliblendsacompetitive Gabriel’s Angels. ASU’s softballteamtoherworkasavolunteermanagerfor Jackie Vasquez Theodorakisappliesherteamspiritlearnedwith 16 sports news Masters world record for he broke the50freestyle Olympic trialsin2011, As hepreparedforthe have proven beneficial. taking ontheseburdens around-the-clock. total focusanddiscipline goals thathasrequired a setofsimultaneous analyst forMerck &Co. Inc., and hispositionasacredit as anOlympic hopeful time between preparation managed tobalancehis in NorthCarolina, has Brunelli, whonow lives Devil swimmingcareer, business career. also balancingabudding beyond graduationwhile excellence inthepool pursue dreamsofOlympic Nick Brunellicontinuedto years hecompetedatASU, swimmer duringallfour just aboutanything.” ASU, soI’mpreparedfor For Brunelli, however, Since concludinghisSun An All-American

sportsupdates natural thanwrestling.’’ It iswiredintous. There isnothing more have beentheearliestin historyofman. is atoughphysical andmentalsport. Itmight lot ofways you canwin,” hesaid. “Wrestling admittedly anancientgame. learn newways tofindvictoryin what is he said. to learnwhatmakes themtick. meeting withhisathletessincethen, trying being hiredinearly April. Hehasbeen began thecoaching processshortly after that Ihave setthebarhigh,’’ Jones said. the classroom. wrestlers tobesuccessfulonthematandin when itcomestoASU. Jones wants his on theroleofheadcoach athisalmamater. Now itis2014andJones hasreturnedtotake head coach attheUniversity ofPennsylvania. Olympic freestylecoach andacollegiate from 1993to1998. served asanassistantcoach fortheteam medal in1992. Hecameback to Tempe and became anOlympic starandwon asilver time All-AmericanfortheSunDevils, he career asanationalchampion andthree- comes back toArizonaState. toss himtothefourwinds, andhealways wrestling team Olympic SunDevilreturnstocoach Back again “I ampassionate, andIknow therearea Jones willseektohelphiswrestlers “I can’thelpthemunlessIknow them,’’ Practice beginsinOctober, butJones “I thinkthey know my background and He ispassionatebutnotsoft-hearted He departedagain, finding work asan After completinganoutstandingwrestling Zeke Jones islike aboomerang. You can wrestling headcoachatASU. Zeke Jonesisthenew 17

The ASU men’s gymnastics club has won 16 USA ASU won the Territorial Cup Series over the University of Arizona by having its teams Gymnastics national in 18 intercollegiate varsity sports outperform the Wildcats. championships.

We are the champions! Aspire higher ASU bests the U of A in 2013-14 Men’s gymnastics club instills excellence Territorial Cup Series It seemed like it was the end for men’s gymnastics, but it Members of the Sun Devil Nation were able to rest easier wasn’t – it was the beginning. over the summer with the knowledge that Arizona State had When Arizona State dropped men’s gymnastics in 1993, claimed victory in the Territorial Cup Series with the University former Sun Devil gymnast Scott Barclay and a handful of of Arizona for the first time in the five-year history of others tried to get school officials to reconsider. But after about the competition. five years of pounding his head against the wall, Barclay The Territorial Cup Series, sponsored by State Farm Insurance, decided to find another way to nurture the talent of male Sun focuses primarily on football, where the teams face off annually Devil gymnasts. in a late-season Territorial Cup game, which has a history The result is a privately funded gymnastics center in Chandler, stretching back to 1899. ASU rolled over the Wildcats in last near Chandler Fashion Center mall, which is home to the ASU year’s game, 58-21. men’s gymnastics club, as well as being a place where aspiring But for the series, teams from the two schools compete young gymnasts can learn the sport. Appropriately enough, it against one another in 18 common varsity intercollegiate sports. is named the Aspire Kids Sports Center. Barclay has been the The winning school in head-to-head competition is awarded coach the entire time and has led the Sun Devils to 16 USA one point, and a half-point goes to each if the season series is Gymnastics national championships. split, such as in 2013-14 with men’s and women’s basketball “We fought tooth and nail (to remain an NCAA sport),’’ and women’s indoor volleyball. Another way to earn a point Barclay said. “But then a bunch of us, alumni and those who love is the higher finish between the schools in Pac-12 Conference the sport, started to brainstorm. We started to work on building championship events, such as swimming and diving and track something. Everything started to click. I can say that in these and field. 20 years, we have accomplished each one of the things that we ASU totaled 11.5 points for the 2013-14 school year, Arizona dreamed about.’’ 8.5. The first team to reach 9.5 points is considered the winner of The budget is $120,000 per year, according to Barclay, and the the series, and ASU reached that with a sixth-place finish in the money comes from private donations and fundraising projects, conference championship tournament for men’s golf. such as an annual junior gymnastics event at the Rawhide facility Now the race begins anew for 2014-15. All eyes will be on the on Interstate 10 just south of Chandler. football contest between the two rivals, which takes place this Even though as a club, the team is not bound by the same year on Nov. 28 in Tucson. academic requirements as NCAA teams, Barclay said he encourages good studies and hands out what he calls “book scholarships.” Athletes can train year-round at the Aspire center, and the club’s schedule begins in January. ASU will have about 30 athletes participating during the coming season, including team leader Zack Mollett, a junior who shines in the all-around. 18 sports news

Talent show Incoming players bolster men’s basketball roster

It takes a Sun Devil to know a Sun Devil. And former Arizona State University basketball player Quincy Brewer, now the head coach at San Bernardino Valley (Junior) College in California, thinks his star player, guard Gerry Blakes, will be a good fit in Tempe as he joins a group of six other newcomers for ASU coach Herb Sendek. “He (Blakes) is a very good offensive player, really dynamic and aggressive,’’ said Brewer, who played at ASU from 1993-97. Blakes averaged 23.7 points per game at San Bernadino Valley. At 6-feet- 4, Blakes is five or six inches taller than Jahii Carson. Could he also play the point? “Absolutely,’’ Brewer said. “He’s big enough to see over most people (guards) and quick enough.’’ Sendek will need an infusion of new blood from players like Blakes, particularly after the departure of center Jordan Bachynski and point guard Carson for the NBA. Blakes is one of three community college players coming aboard. The others are guard Roosevelt Scott of Indian Hills (Minn.) Community College and forward Willie Atwood of Connors State College (Tenn.). A Gerry Blakes (making basket) will be fourth collegian, forward Savon Goodman, will be transferring from the joining the ASU men’s basketball team for University of Nevada-Las Vegas. 2014-15. Incoming freshmen from the high school ranks are guard Tra Holder from Los Angeles; Kodi Justice, a guard from Dobson High in Mesa; and Connor MacDougall, a forward from Arizona Division I state champion Corona del Sol High School in Tempe.

Sports updates are written by Don Ketchum, a Tempe-based freelance sportswriter.

Tuned in Pac-12 Networks boosts its signal for Sun Devil fans

Pac-12 Networks, the 24-7 sports network devoted solely to the universities of the Pac-12 Conference, will bring fans even closer to the action with increased programming and a new online subscription service for international audiences in 2014-15. Entering its third year, Pac-12 Networks will increase its coverage to 850 live sporting events, more than any other collegiate sports network in the country. Coverage will include more than 100 live Sun Devil events across all 20 sports, including non-conference and conference matchups for the ASU football team and more behind-the-scenes programming. Pac-12 Networks are distributed regionally and nationally by more than 60 TV providers, including seven of the top 11 video operators in the country. In Arizona, the network is carried by Cable America, Centurylink, Comcast, Cox, Orbitel, Suddenlink, Valley Connections, Western Broadband and DISH. And for those living outside the United States, a new online service will help bring sports events and archival programs to their screens. In August, Pac-12 Networks launched an online subscription service with YouTube, (left to right) Mike Yam, Rick Neuheisel and former available in 25 countries, with an additional 14 countries to be added by ASU quarterback Jake Plummer host the Pac-12 summer 2015. Football Weekly studio show. For more information on accessing the Pac-12 Networks, both within the United States and internationally, visit http://pac-12.com/networks. Sun Devils Bryan McBride (top) and Shelby Houlihan (bottom) brought home national titles during the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Setting the standard Two Sun Devil track athletes take home national titles

High jumper Bryan McBride and distance runner Shelby Houlihan brought home national titles in their respective events in June at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. McBride, a redshirt junior, set a new lifetime best when he cleared 2.28m (7 feet – 5.75 inches) on his third and final try, earning 10 team points and moving up to No. 2 in the ASU outdoor track and field record book. Houlihan, also a junior, overcame a late press from Florida’s Cory McGee in the last 200 meters of the 1,500-meter finals to win the race in 4:18.10. The victory marked the first national title of her Sun Devil career and the first-ever title in this event in ASU program history. The Sun Devils have had at least one outdoor national track and field champion every year since 2006. Both athletes were honored for their accomplishments on June 24 at Chase Field before an Arizona Diamondbacks game. Biodesign

Michael Birt, director of ASU’s Center for Sustainable Health ing 21

the future he honeybee is an amazing creature. The tens of thousands of bees in a typical hive will fly miles in every direction, gather microscopic bits of nectar from flowers, bring them back to the colony, use dance and touch to communicate to other bees where the honey is, and ultimately create a sweet, golden syrup that has been a metaphorT for the good life since ancient times. For ASU researcher Michael Birt, the honeybee serves as an inspiration for the creation of a life of good health. Birt, who has been figuring out how Researchers to best use the many newly available biological draw inspiration sensors to improve health, realized that he could for resolving follow the example of the honeybee. “Think of it as a biomimetic model,” Birt says. “Honeybees are challenges from the the best in nature at finding, collecting and acting world around us on data.” By Christopher Vaughan 22 biodesigning the future

Inspired by the system that bees have constructed, Birt envisions an array of thousands of tiny sensors that gather data and funnel it back to a central system, which might be a clinician or even a person’s own computer. In Birt’s estimation, the millions of bytes of data gathered and processed minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour can lead to the transformation of modern health care. Birt’s Project HoneyBee is emblematic of biodesign research at ASU, which uses multidisciplinary teams that take a “bio-inspired” approach to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems. Much of this strategy is concentrated within ASU’s Biodesign Institute, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, but such biologically inspired thinking is found all across the university. “Biodesign takes a perspective that is different than that found in traditional research,” says Raymond DuBois, M.D., who is executive director of the Biodesign Institute. “We believe that the natural world holds lessons and opportunities that can benefit mankind.” In a broad sense, scientists working in this sector see their mission as solving societal problems by reimagining the “design rules” found in nature. Using data to boost wellness Project HoneyBee is a perfect example of the kinds of interdisciplinary research that can transform health care, DuBois and Birt say. Birt, who is director of the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health, doesn’t have a degree in science – his academic training is in Japanese history. But he does have more than 25 years of experience in health care, having founded a company to support health care and diagnostic enterprises in Asia. He ultimately launched an initiative called the Pacific Health Summit with Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Hartwell, Raymond DuBois, M.D. executive director, ASU Biodesign Institute who has become ASU’s chief scientist of personalized medicine at the institute’s Center for Sustainable Health, was recruited to come to the ASU Biodesign Institute, and Birt joined him to continue their collaborations. “We think that data (are) the most important part of improving health now,” Birt says. Currently, people get health measurements taken only sporadically – when they visit the doctor – and those measures are compared to large population averages. An array of sensors moves beyond episodic measurements into a world of continuous measurement, where physicians 23

can spot things beginning Environmental Biotechnology. to go wrong as they Rittmann and his colleagues at happen, and comparisons the center harness some of the can be made with an earth’s tiniest life forms to do our individual’s own past biggest jobs. “We partner with medical history, he says. microorganisms and get them to “This will accelerate work with us to produce renewable the shift from a late- fuels, to clean up pollution, and, stage, disease-treatment we hope, to improve our health,” approach, which is Rittman says. “It’s a partnership: especially ineffective for they give us these services, and we ASU Regents’ Professor Bruce Rittmann aging populations, to give them a happy life.” an early detection and Much of Rittmann’s work prevention approach,” Birt involves understanding how says. “That shift affects everything we do (at the center).” microbial communities behave, and then learning how Birt mentions two examples of new medical to encourage the behaviors that humans find useful. applications for sensors: a Google invention that uses a Sometimes it involves what he calls “bioprospecting”: sensor in a contact lens to continuously monitor blood going out into the field to discover new organisms glucose, and a microscopic sensor inserted into the eye with interesting properties. Sometimes that involves to monitor intra-ocular pressure that could be useful for organisms that inhabit extreme environments such glaucoma patients. as deep in the ocean or in hot springs, places where The world of ubiquitous sensors already has arrived for microorganisms need special skills to survive. many people. Apple and Google are beginning to build “What we do is ask researchers who were going to whole platforms around smartphones and sensors for some of these places anyway to gather soil and rocks physical activity. Many people already are using devices to bring them back for analysis,” says Rittmann, who, like FitBit, which was created with input from James in addition to his role at the Biodesign Institute, is a Levine, co-director of the Mayo Clinic/ASU Obesity distinguished sustainability scientist in the Julie Ann Solutions Initiative and an international expert on Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, as well obesity. When such sensors improve to the point where as a Regents’ Professor in the School of Sustainable they can supply the kind of data that doctors need to Engineering and the Built Environment, a part of the diagnose and treat effectively, they will change medicine Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. “In this way we’ve for both patients and providers, Birt says. found other organisms that have qualities that might be “In 10 or 20 years, we will be capturing physiological advantageous, such as operating at high temperature or information about ourselves that will be important in high pH.” ways that we can’t envision right now,” he notes. Tiny tuning forks and “editing” organisms Partnering with nature for a happy life Biodesign research also tackles security-related issues. One important characteristic of biodesign work Nongjian Tao, a professor within the School of Electrical, is that researchers do not just study the non-human Computer and Energy Engineering at the Ira A. Fulton environment to glean solutions – they actually employ Schools of Engineering and director of the institute’s parts of the environment to do the work. Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors, creates As an example of sustainability research at the technologies that can detect explosives, pollutants, Biodesign Institute, DuBois points to the work of pathogens and volatile organic compounds. One of Bruce Rittmann, who directs the Swette Center for his projects involves crafting tiny quartz tuning forks 24 biodesigning the future

that vibrate differently depending on which target molecules attach to them. Although many biodesign experiements are inspired by nature’s design rules, other projects rewrite the rules to create tools that have never been seen in the natural world. One project led by Hao Yan, director of the Center for Molecular Design and Biomimicry, folds genetic molecules to create “DNA origami,” which acts as a nanostructure scaffold for the creation of new drug delivery systems. Other researchers are engaged in “synthetic biology,” in which a whole genome is taken apart, edited and rebuilt from scratch to create entirely new molecules and systems. Inventing nature to overcome limitations Biodesign Institute researcher Stephen Johnston is creating antibiotics not found in nature by creating peptides with useful properties. But he asserts that what his team is doing falls well within the concept of being “natural.” “’Natural’ is sort of a false concept,” says Johnston, who is co-director of the institute’s Center for Innovations in Medicine, a professor in the School of Life Sciences within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and director of a graduate degree program in biological design. “There’s a false dichotomy between the natural world and humanity. People and their inventions are just as much a part of nature as plants and bacteria.” Instead of copying nature, Johnston and his Stephen Johnston, co-director of ASU’s Center colleagues use whatever materials they can – including for Innovations in Medicine inventing new biological materials – to create platforms that solve fundamental problems, he says. “We don’t worry too much about how nature does it.” In his synthetic antibody work, Johnston and his colleagues make an array of peptides (chains of amino acids) and find those that bind best to the target in Innovations meet the real world which they are interested. “When you combine them Ultimately however, the success of the institute, and you get a molecule with high affinity and specificity the biodesign efforts at ASU more generally, will be for the target,” Johnston says. His lab also is involved measured by the number of innovations that are actually in an effort to create a cancer vaccine by finding bits of used and benefit the world at large. New inventions can proteins that are common in tumors and sensitizing the work fantastically in the lab, but then crash upon any immune system to those molecules, so that cancer is one of a hundred real-world obstacles. destroyed right as it begins to form. “I think that innovation in new diagnostics and “We do whatever works,” Johnston says. “If you want treatments are tremendously important, but our struggle to create fundamental new solutions then you can’t have is in getting these in to the health care delivery domain any limitations – if you find nothing to mimic in nature, and used appropriately,” says Natalie Landman, who is then invent nature.” the associate director for the School for the Science of Health Care Delivery at the College of Health Solutions. 25

New innovations can fail because they are impractical, misunderstood, used incorrectly, not economical to produce, or their use is not reimbursed by health insurance companies, she says. And even if something should work, in health care it needs to go through a clinical trial to prove it does work. Much of the answer to this quandary lies within the ASU design principle of conducting use-inspired research, she says. “We have interesting science going on, but the more we can get plugged in with our clinical partners and what they are struggling with, the better things will be.” Landman points to many great innovations – such as CT scanning, pacemakers and ICU monitoring tools – that came about because clinical users expressed a need for them. To that end, the researchers and faculty tackling biodesign challenges at ASU are well aware of the need to make sure that what they are producing will be economical and useful. “A common theme of everything we do is that it has to be economical,” says Johnston. “We want these things to serve the world.” The institute always has had an emphasis on getting technologies out into the world, he says, and as a result his group has spun off three companies to help the technologies make that transition. For other efforts, like Project HoneyBee, developing the research through collaborations with end users is something that is built into the project. “We have good relationships with every health system in Maricopa County,” Birt says. The team already has eight observational clinical trials on the use of sensors with local health systems, and they have created a ‘honeycomb’ scheme to plan and track these collaborations, he adds. “This work actually requires multiple parties to participate. The very nature of the work is interdisciplinary,” he says. Being director of the Biodesign Institute has been a lot of fun and very challenging, DuBois says, because it is a unique opportunity to create a convergence of all the sciences, from biology Natalie Landman, associate director, School for the to medicine, chemistry, computer science, social Science of Health Care Delivery science and physics, he says. “That’s one of our directives – to break down silos and work together,” he says.

Christopher Vaughan is a freelance science writer based in Menlo Park, Calif. BEYOND

Patrick McWhortor, president/ CEO, Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits Nonprofits look 27 to ASU for help navigating a changing H landscape TE By Eric Swedlund B OTTOM LINE Today’s nonprofit organization faces challenges that might have seemed unrecognizable to similar groups operating 40 or even 20 years ago. Some of the current “hot topics” in the field include: the promise – or peril of crowdfunding; a growing level of income inequality between the richest and poorest in America; a shift from questioning a nonprofit organization’s overhead to questioning its impact on society; and the role of social entrepreneurs, who borrow and adapt for- profit ideas to resolve societal challenges. BEYOND THE B OTTOM LINE

Robert Ashcraft, executive director, ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation

of Nonprofits defines as “activities that improve and The evolving nature of nonprofit organizations is enhance a nonprofit’s ability to achieve its mission and fueled by several factors according to alumnus Patrick sustain itself over time.” McWhortor, president and CEO of the Alliance of “Nonprofits increasingly are very complex. Part of Arizona Nonprofits. our role is to build the capacity for how they’re led,” After a rash of business scandals in the early years says Ashcraft. “We have a number of capacity-building of the 2000s, there was a heightened demand for initiatives, and we’re applying the discipline and metrics accountability to the public, which included looking of enterprise across all sectors to identify the elements critically at nonprofits as well as for-profit businesses. that constitute effective leadership and management This led to greater transparency and the need for of nonprofits.” improved organizational infrastructure. The second issue is the so-called “Great Recession” that began in 2007, and which McWhortor emphasized is not READY FOR A NEW APPROACH over for nonprofits. The continuing economic uncertainty McWhortor asserts that the economy is driving a lot of has forced many organizations to meet a growing demand interest in innovation in the nonprofit sphere – including for services at the same time their resources have developing new models for sustaining nonprofit missions dwindled and their reserves are becoming tapped out. and making the most impact with constrained resources. “In the past probably 10 to 20 years there has been a Social entrepreneurship is a significant trend driving growing emphasis on the need for nonprofits to shore up innovation, McWhortor says. It’s practiced by retiring their business infrastructure as a way to make them more baby-boomers and millennials alike; both groups are efficient, promote accountability, and ultimately, have the looking to make a difference in the world, even if that most impact they can in the community,” he says. difference takes place outside the traditional boundaries Dynamic shifts are underway in the nonprofit world, of nonprofits. and units such as Arizona State University’s Lodestar “That brings lots of new ideas and creative business Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation are models to the nonprofit world and in some cases, they’re applying data-driven research to help organizations challenging some of the underlying assumptions of the modernize their operations, and providing next- nonprofit world,” McWhortor says. generation training to nonprofit leaders and board The Lodestar Center, which grew out of a 35-year-old members. According to Robert Ashcraft, the Lodestar undergraduate program and took on its current name Center’s executive director, one of the most crucial steps in 1999, offers degree programs in nonprofit leadership in successfully adapting involves addressing the issue of at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels and is capacity building – a concept that the National Council arguably the largest and most robust nonprofit academic center operating at a university anywhere, 29 Ashcraft says. “We are a huge epicenter of this field that supports students at all levels and provides a great laboratory for them engaging in their research and learning. It’s the full range of knowledge, tools, training, academic programs and research,” he says. “Other universities certainly have elements of those things, that might include a research institute or some community outreach, but we have all of these elements under one roof.” Despite being an established center, Lodestar has focused on leading rather than just following industry trends and sharing them with professionals interested in expanding their skillset. Jill Watts, director of capacity building initiatives at the Lodestar Center, oversees the Generation Next Nonprofit Leadership Academy, a nine-month training program that began in 2008 and is sponsored by American Express. The academy’s training curriculum is carefully crafted to address specific trends in the nonprofit world, so current leaders can make their organizations responsive to external changes. “It helps them to see what sort of trends are happening, why people are giving, why they stop giving and there are very specific questions we ask to understand the donor psyche,” Watts says. “All of those factors can go into the design and implementation of a campaign or development program. It all goes back to how we can put this research into practice.”

LEARNING TO PLAN FOR IMPACT Fundraising is one area that has changed dramatically for nonprofits in recent years. Corporate social responsibility isn’t just a matter of the community relations department cutting a check these days; corporations are shifting their philanthropic missions, moving away from sponsorships of luncheons and galas and other traditional mainstays of the not-for-profit budget. “Most corporations have become very strategic about their philanthropic giving. They want to see results. They want to see impact. They want to build Jill relationships,” Watts says. Watts, That’s led to a movement in nonprofits to diversify their funding mix. Whereas nonprofits the ASU could traditionally fill their budgets with an annual Lodestar campaign and a few grants, now they’re looking at Center’s a scarcity of unrestricted funds related to the fact director of that, by and large, donors have become much more capacity specific in their desires. Watts says that nonprofit leaders have had to building become much better at discussing the specific impact initiatives of their programs, especially when given access to their counterparts in the business world. “We … try to get (nonprofit leaders) face time with those people and do ‘speed-networking,’ basically,” she notes. “They can sit for five minutes at a time with corporate leaders and talk about where there might be an alignment between their mission and the corporation’s focus.” BEYOND THE B OTTOM LINE

Diana “DeDe” Yazzie Devine, president/ CEO, Native American Connections

the philanthropy and donor community,” she said. “We Reaching out – and back – into use their products and tools, we participate in the salary the community survey. Every year they’re on the leading edge of what the next innovation will be.” ASU has been invaluable in helping the Valley’s Native Devine notes that the Lodestar Center also functions as American Connections grow and navigate the changes in an entryway for nonprofits to access many other resources the nonprofit world, says Diana “Dede” Yazzie Devine, the at the university, from students seeking internships and group’s president and CEO and a 1999 graduate of the graduates seeking employment to researchers specializing MBA program at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business. in areas that align with the nonprofits’ various missions. When she started at Native American Connections 35 And the community connection is not just one-way. Devine years ago, Devine was the third employee and the group and McWhortor both serve on the ASU Community functioned on a $50,000 annual budget. Now, Native Council, a Valleywide advisory group of approximately 30 American Connections has 140 employees, an annual members who help advise President Michael M. Crow on budget of $11 million and operates at 18 sites throughout topics related to nonprofits and social embeddedness. the Phoenix area. “Midway in my career here, I knew we were running a business, just like any other business,” says Devine, Partnering to resolve who went through the business school’s executive MBA large-scale challenges program to boost her business knowledge. “We’re using The Lodestar Center isn’t the only ASU unit studying sophisticated financing strategies; we’re acquiring nonprofit issues. David Swindell, associate professor of properties and using them as assets; we’re acting just like public affairs and director of ASU’s Center for Urban businesses, but with heart, with the thought of always Innovation, conducts research that deals with the aligning our mission to our business decisions.” interrelationships between governments and nonprofits. Devine, who serves on the Lodestar Center’s advisory One of Swindell’s projects is studying nonprofit agencies board, says Native American Connections regularly across 26 different sectors at each of the country’s 50 partners with ASU in a number of ways. largest metropolitan statistical areas. “We look to the Lodestar to train our board members “What I’m trying to develop is some kind of model to – they’ve done a lot of work around how to interact with look at demand vs. supply of those services to determine where you would look to consolidate some of these 31 services or where there are underserved areas that could use additional services,” he says. “This takes a step back and looks at the community level for measurements. Are we seeing a shift in the demand for services because we’ve actually solved some of these problems? A successful nonprofit is one that actually solves its way out of existence.” In another project, Swindell and his collaborators are building a tool to help governments decide whether they should collaborate on providing some services and if so, what form of collaboration makes the most sense in the context of the service and the type of community. As is the case with public-private partnerships, public-nonprofit partnerships are a growing trend for providing services. And Swindell says the advancement of nonprofits as a field of study have influenced this expansion. “We’re seeing a lot more of these in recent times because there’s been a growing professionalism in the nonprofit community. There are a lot more people who are skilled at these services than there have been in the past,” he says.

Using the past to succeed in the future Swindell says the university is able to influence how nonprofits will transform themselves in the future because Arizona’s leaders – in the government, business and nonprofit realms – tend to have strong ties to ASU. “We have so many of our graduates now who are running local governments and nonprofits, our alumni are our collaborators now,” he says. “The thing about being at ASU is there are so many doors open and so many great opportunities to apply research to public problems.” Ashcraft, named in 2012 to the Nonprofit Times’ “Power and Influence Top 50” list, says the success of the Lodestar Center now is a tribute to the wisdom at ASU that created it in the first place. “If you think about our center, we’re a knowledge and tools hub for those who lead and manage nonprofits, but also for those who volunteer and serve on boards and give money, across every topic imaginable,” he says. “Really it was ahead of its time.” ASU’s approach to nonprofits is still ahead of its time, emphasizing the embrace of new technologies to enable nonprofits to remain vibrant in the David community. The Lodestar Center has moved many Swindell, of its resources online, making them useful to nonprofits statewide. director “Clearly technology has changed the way in which of ASU’s so many nonprofits raise money,” Ashcraft says, Center for pointing to the 900 nonprofits that participated in Urban Arizona Gives Day, an online fundraising effort Innovation hosted by the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits and the Arizona Grantmakers Forum. “Those that don’t have the understanding or the capacity turn to us and we provide the latest knowledge and tools … We keep evolving the field and the field keeps evolving us,” Ashcraft says.

Eric Swedlund is a freelance writer based in Tucson. jam bla in es asme gAssociate Professor of English 33

ASU faculty, researchers and students collaborate to increase literacy By Holly Beretto

There’s no doubt the need for reading and writing is crucial for success in the 21st century. In an increasingly knowledge- powered economy, the need for working professionals to be able to read, write and think critically is essential. But as the landscape of how we work – and the tools we need to do so – are changing, it’s becoming more and more apparent that many students are lagging in key literacy achievements, which means they could be falling further and further behind on the job front, becoming less and less able to learn and adapt and resolve challenges across their lifetimes. 34 words of wisdom a n Mary Emily Warneri ar Professorr rof Education e in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College HASU is looking to change thes ending to that story-in- K progress. Across the university, educators, researchers and volunteers are working to help students and teachers achieve literary success. And they’re doing it in ways that are both innovative and based in sound educational traditions and rigorous research, proving that there are many avenues to improving reading and writing comprehension. Here is a brief snapshot of literacy efforts taking place at ASU. Making reading - and writing - fun and relevant When we think of a “reader,” we might envision someone quietly enjoying a book in a corner. But ASU is providing experiences that connect books to sound, motion and culture – and forging a link between developing skills as a reader and developing skills as a writer. In May, more than 500 K-6 students and their teachers took part in ASU’s celebration of El Día de Los Niños, El Día de Los Libros (Spanish for “Day of the Children, Day of the Books”), a local offshoot of a nationwide annual event that began in 1997 in Sante Fe, N.M. Designed as a way to encourage children to get excited about reading and their Hispanic heritage, the ASU version of the celebration featured interactive reading and writing workshops hosted by authors, poets, storytellers, ASU professors, graduate students, and community literacy advocates; a free book for every child who attended (as well as a visit with the author); participation from writers who flew in from across the country; and performances by the Agua Fria High School Baile Folklórico Dancers and Mariachi Band and other groups. “(Through this event), young people learn that reading is not only meaningful and can deal with topics close to their own hearts, but can actually be fun,” said James Blasingame, associate professor of English, who, with help from graduate student Tracey Flores, orchestrates El Día de Los Niños, El Día de Los Libros. “They also engage in their own writing activities, led by the authors and local professors and teachers.” “We wish to provide students with an experience that allows youth to see beauty of their stories and cultivate their voice and realize the liberating power of reading and writing,” said Flores. Events like El Día showcase that writing really does go hand in hand with reading. That’s one point that o 35 Professor ofa Psychologyrl no Karen Harris, Maryc Emily Warner Professor of Education in the Mary Lou r Fulton Teachers College, also makes in n her research. Over the last generation, she o says, the focus shifted away from explicitly teaching writing and concentrated instead onc teaching reading, the idea being that students would learn to write as an offshoot of learning to read and rich literacy environments. But the reading-centric approach has not worked for most children, she said. “Some kids do learn that way,” she concedes. “But they’re a small minority.” Harris’ research focuses on developing evidence- based approaches to writing instruction – which means that she looks for measurable outcomes that tie how students are taught to read and write to what they achieve afterward. She praises the university’s efforts to work with elementary, middle and secondary schools across the region on this issue, and says that she sees first-hand how teachers are frustrated by what she terms the search for a magic “silver bullet” idea that will help kids learn. “Schools see, in a way many policy makers do not, that this is a tangled problem that will take a lot to fix,” she explains. “Learning to read and learning to write are different skills, and our team’s research helps show teachers how they can work with students across different age groups and skills and help them develop deep and rich writing skills.” Going about instruction the "write" way Teachers often haven’t learned a lot themselves about how to teach writing, Harris explains, so they’re often at a loss of how to begin. Her research proves that when teachers give their students the important foundations to learn how to plan, write and edit their work, their performance in comprehension increases and it helps them learn to use writing as a tool for learning. Building a framework for teachers is something Carol Connor, a professor of psychology at ASU, does as well. She is the leader of a team that developed A2i (Assessment to Instruction), a software program that helps classroom teachers use planning tools, devise different levels of instruction for students at different reading levels, and measure students’ results. The platform is being developed by a spinout company, Learning Ovations, which is based at SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center. j36 words of wisdom h e s p e e Project Coordinator, Mary Lou Fultont Teachers College o Connorw says that A2i helps teachers because it’s not a program that steals from their instruction time. It does, however,s help show them where a child might be at the beginning of a school year and what steps can be taken to ensure she’s reading at grade level by the end of it. “This tool helps teachers with their planning and classroom direction,” she says, noting that teachers tend to work better – and create better learning environments – when they have a certain level of autonomy. “We’d love to see the widespread use of this program, and develop ways for it to be used in upper grades.” Tutors provide one-on-one assistance Another way to help students learn valuable reading and writing skills is through one-on-one instruction. In fact, as you’re reading this story, nearly 250 Sun Devils will be sharing their tutoring skills in classrooms across the Valley of the Sun. Joseph Sweet, who is a project coordinator at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, oversees the university’s participation in America Reads, an organization that trains college students to work with children in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program provides children with opportunities to read to an adult, strengthening their skills. The tutors provide feedback and help with both reading and writing skills as the children grow in their ability to comprehend written material. “We work with Title I schools where 50 percent of the The software is meant to go hand in hand with a students have reduced or free lunch,” Sweet says. “Our school’s curriculum, and is being used by teachers in tutors are work study students who spend a semester Arizona, Florida and Pennsylvania. Learning Ovations is working with students.” creating a mobile app, funding its development through Sweet says that the parents of school children in the a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and other sources, program call it a success. “They say our students have with the goal of making it available to individual teachers helped their children improve their foundational skills, during the 2014-2015 school year. so they’re doing better in the classroom, doing better on Connor says it’s crucial that children develop reading homework assignments, they’re catching up where there skills early on. are gaps.” “If children aren’t reading at grade level by the third While the book on how to improve literacy rates in grade, there’s almost no catching up,” she says. “And our the next generation is far from finished, Sun Devils are tool empowers teachers to devise ways that students can writing new “chapters” as they help teachers and their learn at different paces. Our research showed that when students close achievement gaps, giving the children students used A2i in first, second and third grade, 95 important building blocks for success. percent of them were reading at grade level and by the Holly Beretto is a Houston-based freelance writer. end of third grade, many were doing so at the fifth-grade level.” fill cheer December 28, 2014 to the new Pyrotechnics that will astound you January Beautiful colors, lights and erupting sounds will fill your senses and 2, 2015 rock you.

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A golden Gammage ASU’s iconic auditorium celebrates its 50th anniversary season By Bill Goodykoontz

The stage at ASU Gammage has played host to Broadway plays, symphony concerts, lectures, memorial services, rock concerts and much more over the past 50 years.

According to John Rattenbury – who would know, given that he was there – when Eugene Ormandy finished conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra after the opening-night concert at Grady Gammage Auditorium, Ormandy waited for the audience to sit down after a standing ovation.

It was Sept. 18, 1964. Rattenbury was the architectural representative for Frank Lloyd Wright, who had designed Gammage but died before its completion. “After the audience sat down, Mr. Ormandy said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you, and on behalf of our orchestra, I want to say this is the second-best auditorium we’ve ever performed in,’ ” Rattenbury said. A buzz ran through the audience. Huh? What? Second best? Ormandy waited a moment and continued: “If I told the truth and said this was better than my own hall back in Philadelphia, they would throw me out of my job.” Gammage is celebrating its 50th year as not only a renowned stage for concerts, dramatic performances, musicals, the 2004 Presidential Debates, and more, but also as a symbol of outreach for Arizona State University and the community it serves. as varied as the persons in attendance 39 A building born of vision at the venue. Clyde Parker, who served as technical The building was the brainchild of director at Gammage for more than 40 Wright, the iconic architect, and Grady years (“the building and the job kind Gammage, the ASU president whose of ran my life for 40 years, almost like name it bears. a second wife,” he claims), recalled a Colleen Jennings-Roggensack has Mahalia Jackson concert years ago that served as executive director of ASU bears out Rattenbury’s claim of the Gamage since 1991, and so is well aware auditorium’s amazing acoustics. of the building’s status on-campus When she was done with the concert and beyond. proper, “she stepped out, away from “Frank Lloyd Wright, along with the microphone, for her encore,” Parker President Gammage, said, ‘Here is where said. “She sang without (amplified) I will plant a stick in the ground, and sound, and the audience was there will be a building with outstretched completely awed by it.” arms that says welcome to Arizona.’ He So much so, he said, that when she continues to do that, from the time he finished, for a moment there was a kind conceptualized it through today.” of stunned silence – and the acoustics Actually, Wright didn’t exactly are so clear that he said could literally conceptualize this building in that place. hear the audience breathing. Gammage and Wright were friends, and For Jennings-Roggensack, it’s not a Gammage wanted an auditorium on concert or performance she remembers campus. He talked to Wright about it, most fondly, but a memorial service for and Wright happened to have a design an Arizona legend. already prepared for an opera house in “The proudest moment, and to Baghdad, Iraq, that was never built. me the most emotionally moving So they built it in Tempe instead. moment, is when we laid Sen. (Barry) The hall has held performances of Goldwater to rest (in 1998),” she said. almost every type: classical music, “He wanted his state funeral to be held Colleen Jennings-Roggensack has been Broadway plays, comics, rockers, opera executive director at ASU Gammage at Gammage.” singers, lectures, convocations, memorial since 1991. But she has one other favorite services, and more. Bruce Springsteen memory, and it doesn’t involve Billy made the concrete supports sway, the Crystal or Robin Williams or the mention of which made Jennings- Joffrey Ballet of “Wicked” or “The Lion Roggensack laugh. King” or any of the other big names “That happens all the time,” she said. and productions that have gone “Mr. Wright designed this building so the through Gammage. It involves a little balcony flexes.” girl attending Camp Broadway as a Good to know. scholarship student. Her grandparents Rattenbury went on to a distinguished were her guardians, and they were at a career as an architect in his own right, dinner for students and family. serving as the senior architect for Taliesin “She said to me, ‘My grandfather Architects. But Gammage was the first big built this building.’ I looked at her project he worked on. What did the and said, ‘What?’ And she said, ‘My job entail? grandfather built this building.’ I turned He laughed. “I never had a job like to (the grandfather) and I said, ‘What do that before.” you mean you built this building?’ He No one could find the architectural said, ‘I was on the construction crew of plans, and Rattenbury didn’t have a car. this building, but I have never sat in this But he stayed with it, gaining experience theater.’ So I grabbed them, put them in and earning the respect of the crew the theater, turned on the stage lights, building the hall. put (the girl) up on stage and said, “It was special,” he said, laughing again. ‘Sing something.’ She sang ‘God Bless “And it’s still there.” America’ and we sobbed.” Asked what Gammage’s most It wasn’t the first time in 50 years distinguishing architectural feature is, that tears have been shed during a Rattenbury didn’t hesitate. performance at Grady Gammage “Its acoustics,” he said. Auditorium. And it won’t be the last. Memory milestones

Like any building that’s been around Bill Goodykoontz is a freelance arts writer based in Chandler. a half-century, Gammage has produced Former technical director Clyde Parker said plenty of memories, recollections that are that the auditorium “ran my life for 40 years.” 40 arts & culture improvement shelf

Marie Antoinette’s Head: The Grady Gammage, Jr., turns over the first shovel of earth at the groundbreaking for ASU Gammage in 1962. Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution Fast facts about ASU Gammage By Will Bashor ’85 M.B.A., and its history ’97 B.A., Lyons Press, 2013. • ASU Gammage stands 80 feet high, eight stories by normal building standards, and measures 300 by 250 feet. With the published memoirs of Marie • The 3,000-seat performance hall offers three levels of seating, with Antoinette’s hairdresser, Léonard Autié, the furthest seat only 115 feet from the stage. as his starting point, historian Will Bashor • In 1962, President Gammage’s son, Grady Gammage, Jr. turned takes readers inside the court of Louis the first shovel of dirt at the building’s official groundbreaking. XVI and the aristocracy of 18th century • Some of the legendary performers who have graced the stage of France. The story-like accounts of daily the auditorium include B.B. King, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, life, behind-the-scenes finagling and Johnny Cash, Elton John, Maya Angelou, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, ill-advised decisions gains credibility Melissa Etheridge and Tori Amos. and value from Bashor’s meticulous • The stage can be adapted for events as diverse as grand opera, documentation and cross checking of dramatic productions, symphony concerts, organ recitals, chamber historical accounts of this period. Also music recitals, solo performances and lectures. helpful are frank disclosures of memoir accounts that could not be verified but that are plausible elements in the story. ASU Gammage celebrates golden An accomplished social climber, anniversary with blockbuster season Léonard as protagonist offers insights into ASU Gammage will celebrate a half-century of hosting artistic the character of life in the broader social excellence a series of special events and programs. On Sunday, milieu as well as within the court‘s inner Sept. 28, the venue will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rooms. His affectionate loyalty to Marie which will include complimentary birthday cake and refreshments, Antoinette and attention to her emotional building tours, free performances and more. state as well as to her elaborate hairstyles Leading up to that will be a special anniversary concert on Sept. 23, are balanced throughout the book by which will feature the ASU Concert Jazz Band, the university’s Wind his awareness of the world as it changed Orchestra and the ASU Symphony Orchestra and combined choirs. around her. The seeds of revolution are The concert will highlight music by Bach, Beethoven and Richard woven expertly throughout the work, Strauss, whose music was played by Eugene Ormandy and The even as the reader develops sympathy Philadelphia Orchestra at the auditorium’s grand opening concert for the young and often unaware Marie in 1964. Antoinette. Overall, this nonfiction book is The 2014-15 Desert Schools Broadway Across America—Arizona an engaging account of a pivotal moment theater season will be filled with popular name-brand shows, in French history told from a fresh and including “Wicked,” “Chicago,” “Cinderella,” “Pippin,” and revealing perspective. “The Phantom of the Opera.” For more information on events at ASU Gammage during the 2014-15 season, visit: http://www.asugammage.com/. 41

Commit to Win: How to Publish Your Photography Guitar with Wings: A Harness the Four Elements Book: Revised & Updated Photographic Memoir of Commitment to Reach Edition Your Goals By Lawrence Juber with Marshall By Darius Himes ’93 B.F.A. and Mary Terrill, Dalton Watson Fine Books, 2014 By Heidi Reeder ’96 Ph.D., Hudson Virginia Swanson ’76 B.F.A, ’80 M.F.A., Princeton Architectural Press, 2014. Street Press, 2014. What if, in an instant, your career went from pretty good to legendary? Willpower and motivation are often It’s the dream of many serious That’s what happened to Lawrence touted as the master keys to making and professional photographers – not to Juber, a British-born musician who was keeping commitments, but Heidi Reeder, mention droves of aspiring amateurs – a successful guitar player in London in an associate professor of communications to publish a book of their work. Himes the 1970s. Then, in 1978, he was asked to at Boise State University, asserts that and Swanson, who are (respectively) become a member of Wings, the band there are actually four components the director of Fraenkel Gallery and formed by Paul McCartney after the of commitment. She says that these an author/educator/arts advisor, have Beatles broke up. components include treasure (how we assembled a how-to book that is by turns “Guitar with Wings,” which Juber wrote benefit from that which we commit informative, entertaining and inspiring. with co-author Marshall Terrill, a public ourselves to), troubles (what sort of Whether you’re a passionate affairs information specialist at ASU’s challenges or roadblocks we encounter photographer, or simply a fan of the Downtown Phoenix campus, is a detailed along the road to commitment); genre who would like to beef up your and lively account of Juber’s life before, contributions (our tangible and intangible reading list of photo books, this volume during and after his tenure with the band. investment in a commitment) and choices is an absorbing read. The book mixes a It is packed with his photos and personal (the alternatives we have to seeing a detailed look at the current publishing musical memorabilia, including dozens commitment through to the end). process for trade and self-published of informal photos of McCartney and Reeder’s book offers a detailed look at photography books with brief essays his first wife Linda, and their farm in the these four elements, how they interact by “industry voices” (including ASU’s Scottish countryside, which functioned as to influence our level of commitment to Regents’ Professor of photography a sort of creative mecca for Wings. a person, a job or a cause. She has even Mark Klett) that illuminate the process Juber’s tone in the book is one of produced a mathematical formula to of making a book from a variety of gratitude and amazement for his time describe this interaction. However, her angles. In the back of the book, there spent at what he called “McCartney tone is anything but clinical or obtuse. is a section with case studies of how University.” The reader is likely to be Instead, she uses easy to comprehend contemporary photography books amazed as well. Fans of Beatles and and entertaining stories to illustrate have gotten published, featuring Wings will enjoy the snapshots of their the dynamics of commitment. She question-and-answer interviews with favorite musicians – especially the more also provides helpful action plans for the photographers. Finally, Himes and intimate shots that could have only come readers who want to strengthen their Swanson include a thick resources section from a camera held by a family friend commitment to a goal, or assist others as that includes worksheets on marketing, and band mate. Contemporary music they evaluate their commitments. formatting, working with distributors, and much more. history buffs will love the inside stories of many of Wings’ hit songs, as well as some of the band’s crucial albums and tours. The deluxe edition of the book includes another treat: a limited-edition CD featuring Juber entitled “Standard Time.” 42 arts & culture

R. Craig Coppola ’92 M.B.A., founding Faculty and Staff 2000s principal of Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services, announced the release of Desirée Garcia, assistant professor of English, Bill Konigsberg ’05 M.F.A. recently announced his first book, “How to Win in Commercial announced the release of her book, “The Migration the release of the second edition paperback of Real Estate Investing,” which is available of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American his debut novel, “Out of the Pocket.” This edition through amazon.com. Mainstream,” by Rutgers University Press. includes two new chapters, a cover designed by Evan Walsh, a foreword by former NFL punter Krisstina Wise ’91 B.S., founder of the GoodLife Carrie Gillon, assistant professor of Chris Kluwe and an afterword by Outsports Team, a real estate brokerage in Austin, Texas, English, announced the release of her book, co-founder Jim Buzinski. The work is available published “Falling for Money: How to Have a “The Semantics of Determiners: Domain on amazon.com. Lifetime Love Affair with Your Finances.” The book Restriction in Skwxwú7mesh,” by Cambridge identifies principles for securing financial well- Scholars Publishing. Justin Allen ’03 B.S., youth basketball coach, being and is available at amazon.com. motivational speaker and former ASU basketball Awards and player who is also a cancer survivor, announced ♦M.O. Thirunarayanan ’90 Ph.D. published an Recognitions the release of “No You Can’t … Yes I Can,” an article, “Life-Integrated Evolving Digital Diplomas,” inspirational book for young people who face in EDUCAUSE Review Online. Chris Benguhe ’92 B.A., motivational speaker, obstacles on the way to meeting their goals. consultant and writer for the Catholic Sun 1980s newspaper in Phoenix and the Saturday Evening Ainsley Grace Collins ’01 M.C. (formerly Post, was the subject of an ABC 15 story about Marji Trued Collins), founder of The Center Tobi Lopez Taylor ’86 B.A., ’99 M.A., editor his transition from a popular tabloid writer to an for Humanness, announced the release of her of American Indian Art Magazine, announced author of stories about ordinary people meeting self-help book, “What’s My Childhood Got to the publication by Screenfold Press/Mare’s Nest extraordinary challenges. Do with It? How Discovering Your Past Will Books of her new book, “The Polish and Russian Benefit Your Future.” The work is available Arabians of Ed Tweed’s Brusally Ranch.” The work Bill Konigsberg ’05 M.F.A. received the Sid through amazon.com. is available through amazon.com. Fleischman Humor Award for his second young adult novel, “Openly Straight.” Additional 1990s 1970s recognition of the book includes YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults, ALA’s Rainbow List, and Suzanne Linda ’99 B.S. announced the release ♦Patty Mahoney ’72 B.A.E., ’77 M.A.E., ’88 Georgia Peach Award nomination. of her debut novel, “In an English Garden,” M.Ed., ’90 M.C. announced the release through the first book in a planned trilogy. The book is Inkwell Productions of her book “Secrets from the Viktorija Todorovska ’96 M.T.E.S.L., ’00 available through amazon.com. Pink Chair, A Struggle for Life Among the Dead.” Ph.D., a food and wine consultant and author, Based on a true story, the novel takes place in announced the nomination of her book, “The John Shufeldt ’95 M.B.A., ’05 J.D., an adjunct Tempe during the middle of the 20th Century and Sardinian Cookbook: The Cooking and Culture professor in the W. P. Carey School of Business references ASU. of a Mediterranean Island,” for a culinary award and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, from the International Association of Culinary announced the publication of his nonfiction book, 1960s Professionals in the baking category. “Ingredients of Outliers: A Recipe for Personal Achievement,” by Outlier Publishing. This is the Ronald E. Knipfer ’65 M.S.E., who is retired first work in a planned series on this topic. from the U.S. Air Force and community college management, announced the publication of his book, “Everybody’s Poetry.” The work is available through amazon.com. SUNDEVILBUSINESSDIRECTORY.COM

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Success by Bob Boschee is the 2014-15 chair of the association ASU Alumni Association’s New board chair board of directors and names inclusion, National Alumni diversity as key Council. to organizational growth By Liz Massey

Bob Boschee ’83 B.S., ’85 M.B.A., the incoming chair of the ASU Alumni Association’s board of directors and National Alumni Council, is keeping in step with the spirit of ASU’s New American University philosophy when you ask him what he’d like to focus on during his year at the helm. “There is something quite special about a university that defines greatness not by exclusivity, but by creating a student body characterized by diverse backgrounds, ideas, and experiences,” he says. “The Alumni Association should reflect those values … so everyone who graduated from this great institution can remain closely connected to our rich, diverse alumni community and all it has to offer.” Boschee has maintained his connection to ASU as a student, employee, alumnus and community member. He started his career working for ASU Public Events as a technical supervisor, overseeing events at ASU Gammage, Wells Fargo Arena and Sun Devil Stadium. Later, he spent a dozen years managing treasury operations at Arizona Public Service and their parent company, Pinnacle West Capital Corp. He is now a principal partner with Merrill Lynch’s Ashley & Boschee Group. Boschee makes his home with his wife, Lynne, and his two sons, Jack and Ben, in central Phoenix. He answered a few questions from ASU Magazine right before his term as chair began on July 1.

ASU Magazine: Tell us a little bit about in the university since that time by interacting your educational experience at ASU, and how with other alumni, attending sporting events and you’ve remained connected to the university performing arts on campus, and volunteering my as an alumnus. time to support ASU students. My involvement in Boschee: I attended the College of Public the Alumni Association during the past 10 years Programs as an undergraduate, received my has been particularly rewarding. It’s a privilege to MBA from the W. P. Carey School of Business and connect with other alums and to see the dramatic was a full-time employee of ASU Public Events difference ASU grads are making in their during my years at ASU. I’ve stayed involved communities, and in the world. 45

ASU Magazine: As you prepare to take the helm of the Alumni Association board, what are you hearing from ASU alumni about their connection to their alma mater? Boschee: Because we’re such a diverse group, alumni have a wide variety of opinions and priorities for the university. But what connects us all is a strong and growing sense of Sun Devil pride. Whenever I talk to alumni, I hear how proud they are to be part of a school that, in a time of cutbacks, remains unwaveringly committed to public education and is making ever increasing investments in research and in world-class programs and facilities, and that is reaching beyond the classroom and the lab to do great work here in Arizona and around the globe.

ASU Magazine: What do you think are the association’s greatest strengths as an organization? Boschee: People who come to ASU love it here, so a Bob Boschee: “What connects us all is a strong and growing sense large percentage of our alumni remain in state and live of Sun Devil pride.” in Maricopa County. This gives us a huge base of local support. At the same time, there are ASU alums living and working around the United States and across the world, and that offers us a truly global perspective.

ASU Magazine: What are some areas you’d like to see the association grow while you are board chair? Boschee: Arizona leads the nation in cuts to higher- education funding. Today, our universities have 48 percent less state funding today than we did in 2008, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. As an alumni group, we have to do more to support the university and keep it great. But more importantly, we need to do more to encourage our government leaders to invest in public education and in Arizona’s future. To support that goal, I’d like to see the association ramp up its work to communicate about everything the university is accomplishing – including the investments in research and technology that are Bob Boschee praised ASU for making increasing investments in research going on every day at ASU, as well as the university’s and world-class programs and facilities. outreach to various groups.

ASU Magazine: What are some of your favorite ASU or Alumni Association affiliated events to attend/participate in? Why do you enjoy them? Boschee: I’m a college sports fan so I love to attend all events that bring fans and alumni together. I also love the Sun Devil Generations program that allows my young boys to be involved in activities at ASU and to see what their ASU experience will be like.

ASU Magazine: How can alumni and other readers of ASU Magazine contribute to a stronger ASU and support the Alumni Association? Boschee: Get involved. Support your Alumni Association and university by ASU attending events – whether it’s sporting contests, theater events, workshops, reunions, etc. Steer yourself to our campuses to see the many changes occurring and the great work that’s being done. Bob Boschee: “I’m a college sports fan so I love to attend all events that bring fans and alumni together.” 46 alumni news

Sparky plates celebrate 25 years Collegiate license plate program funds Medallion Scholarships

One of the greatest things about ASU’s collegiate license “Sparky” plate program is that Sun Devils can spread their ASU pride wherever they go in their vehicle. Over the past 25 years, the Sparky plate program has raised more than $2 million for the Alumni Association’s Medallion of Merit Scholarship, now known as the Medallion Scholarship Program. To commemorate the license plate program’s 25th anniversary, an ongoing exhibit was installed earlier this year at the Tempe History Museum highlighting key moments in Sparky plate history. Don Dotts, the former executive director of the ASU Alumni Association and the person widely regarded as the originator of the Sparky plates idea, spoke at the exhibit opening about how the program got started. “I saw a collegiate license program in Florida when I was at a conference, and I thought, ‘we could do that,’” Dotts told the crowd. “I called Barry Aarons, chair of the alumni board who was also a lobbyist in the state Legislature. He thought it was a great idea, and we had it through the Legislature in a matter of months … it was Sun Devils who got the program together and got it done.” More than 16,000 Sparky plates currently adorn vehicles in Arizona. To discover more about the history of the plate, a recent episode of The Alumni Experience podcast pitted two current Medallion Scholarship students Current Medallion Scholarship recipients head-to-head in a quiz about the Sparky plate. Visit https://soundcloud. stand with Don Dotts (blue shirt, center), com/asualumni/learning-about-sparky-plates-at-25 to hear the quiz, plus the former executive director of the ASU commentary from Dan Miller, the Tempe History Museum’s coordinator Alumni Association, at the opening of an ongoing museum exhibit on Sparky Plates of exhibits. at the Tempe History Museum. To learn more about how to purchase a Sparky plate, or the scholarships it supports, visit http://www.sparkyplates.com.

Sparky Plates @ 25: An Overview Here are a few facts drawn from the timeline in the Sparky plate exhibit on display at the Tempe History Museum.

1960s: official collegiate license plate 1990s: is Maryland. The ASU Alumni program. Special university Signature events, such as a The scholarship fund Association establishes plates for ASU, U of A and 1996 gala featuring singer now supports more than 100 the Medallion of Merit NAU are created to support Tony Bennett, continue to students every year. Scholarship. This scholarship student scholarships. support the Medallion of 2010s: enables talented students Initial plate design includes Merit Scholarship. The Sparky license plate has from Arizona high schools a white background with Plate sales raise more than a new all-gold look. to complete their maroon and gold accents and $100,000 a year to support the Old Main, the ASU Alumni college education. Sparky the Sun Devil. Medallion Scholarship. Former U.S. President Association office on the 1970s: Ronald Reagan receives a 2000s: Tempe campus, opens as Signature events and Sparky license plate as a In 2006, the Medallion of a third-party provider for galas raise scholarship memento of his visit to ASU Merit program is revamped the Arizona Motor Vehicle funds for the Medallion of on March 20, 1989, where and renamed the Medallion Division to process Sparky Merit scholarship. he spoke at a student Scholarship Program. license plate sales. Sales of Sparky license Sparky license plates go on 1980s: leadership conference. plates begin in other states. sale in Texas. More out-of- Gov. Rose Mofford signs The first state to sell the state ASU plates are planned legislation instituting the plate other than Arizona to be released soon. Mix it up 47 Alumni events address diverse Sun Devil interests

You know the saying: “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” Easy, that is, unless you’re part of the ASU Alumni Association. Enthusiastic employees and volunteers for the organization trade the possibilities of hot-season relaxation for the chance to engage with Sun Devils around the country. This summer, our representatives welcomed ASU’s newest students, entertained future Sun Devils and their families, connected alumni with career-oriented mixers and workshops, introduced the freshman class to one of ASU’s time- honored traditions during Welcome Week, and much more. Sun Devil Send-Offs Here are highlights of Alumni Association-sponsored activities from the past few months.

Signature events introduce students to the “Sun Devil Way” From May until August, nearly 1,000 incoming ASU students, their families, and alumni participated in 37 Sun Devil Send-Offs, which were held in locations from coast to coast. Alumni, ASU staff and current students provided guests with information about the university experience and families were able to meet others from their hometown who shared a Sun Devil connection. Once those incoming freshmen arrived in Arizona in August, they were invited to Whitewash the A, a Welcome Week tradition that stretches back into the 1930s. As many as 2,000 students made the journey up Hayden Whitewash the “A” Butte to refresh the A with a coat of white paint. Members of the Student Alumni Association, the undergraduate wing of the Alumni Association, orchestrated the event and introduced the freshmen to Arizona State’s rich history and traditions.

Sun Devil kids dabble in crafts, watch a movie The Sun Devil Generations program, aimed at junior ASU fans from birth to eighth grade, had an active season, with Arts & Crafts Day on May 3. Several dozen Sun Devils-in-training colored, glued and beaded their way to artistic glory. In June, a posse of Sun Devil pals gathered to watch Movie Mania. Arts and Crafts Young Alumni make a splash … and keep their eyes on the ball The ASU Alumni Association’s Young Alumni group hosted its sixth annual pool party on June 14 at the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale. Participants soaked up the sunshine, splashed in the crystal blue waters, and took advantage of the giveaways and other festivities in the private ASU alumni cabanas. The young alumni also hosted a get-together later in the summer, when several dozen Sun Devils gathered for Young Alumni Night at Chase Field on Aug. 9. Everyone enjoyed seeing the Diamondbacks take on the Colorado Rockies and the view from the Coors Light Strike Zone.

Additional events More than 100 career-minded Sun Devils were able to expand their list Young Alumni Pool Party of professional connections at networking mixers hosted by Alumni Career Resources. The Maroon and Gold Professional Network and Women In Business groups hosted events at Grimaldi’s Old Town in Scottsdale and the Thirsty Lion in Tempe. ASU alumni were also able to glean valuable tips for entering the field or furthering their career at a May 29 seminar, “Explore the Business of Nonprofits.” More than 80 turned out to hear advice from Edmundo Hidalgo of Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., Nora Hannah of Experience Matters, and Laura Capello of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona.

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Yuma/El Diablito alumni chapter members met members of the Sun Devil Athletics Caravan for a celebration lunch at the home of Ram Krishna, a member of the Arizona Board of Regents.

Yuma/El Diablito

In May, the Yuma (El Diablito) Chapter hosted a stop on the the Sun Devil Caravan, where ASU alumni and fans had the opportunity to meet Sun Devil football head coach Todd Graham, new wrestling coach Zeke Jones, men’s basketball coach Herb Sendek, women’s basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne, soccer coach Kevin Boyd, and Vice President for University Athletics Ray Anderson. The tour started at James R. Rolle Elementary School with Sparky’s Tour, a youth education assembly where Sun Devil student-athletes interact with children and teach the value of personal character and healthy living. Then, the coaches and Sparky participated in two community service events: visiting children hospitalized in the pediatrics unit of the Yuma Regional Medical Center, and volunteering at the Yuma Community Food Bank. In the evening, more than 150 alumni gathered at Gowan Company for the Sun Devil Meet-and-Greet. At this event, fans and alums had the chance hold a replica of the Territorial Cup, take photos, interact one-on-one with the ASU coaching staff and administrators, and hear about the upcoming changes to Sun Devil Stadium. Contact: Carlos Anaya, [email protected].

Spring quickly turned into summer in Austin, Austin just in time for our Sun Devil Send-Off. Alumni and new students packed Coal Vines to welcome The Austin Sun Devils enjoyed a busy spring, the newest Sun Devils. Alumni answered starting with our Pat’s Run Shadow Run in late questions, shared favorite memories and issued April. With more than 30 participants, this event their best advice. was a huge success honoring Pat Tillman! As we enter football season, our chapter is In early May, we hosted our annual golf excited to continue game-watching events to cheer tournament at the beautiful Forest Creek Country our Sun Devils to a great season! Our signature Club in Round Rock. ASU alumni came out to event, a boat cruise on Lake Austin, will be enjoy a day of golf, socializing, and great prizes. happening soon, and you won’t want to miss out In the second week of May, our chapter hosted on this highly anticipated occasion! networking events at Abel’s on the Lake and Abel’s Contact: Autumn Mesanko, North, forming new friendships and providing [email protected]. networking opportunities. 51 Chicago Flagstaff Our chapter hosted a record number On April 26, our club hosted its first of events earlier in the year, including our Pat’s Run shadow run in conjunction second annual cornhole tournament with with the main event held in Tempe. local alumni from Colorado University, The Flagstaff community celebrated two W. P. Carey alumni networking events by running/walking a 4.2-mile trail in early spring, our bowling league, and on the beautiful Continental Country last but not least, our Pat’s Run shadow Club Golf Course. Despite the snowy run in late April. One of the biggest weather and freezing temperatures, highlights was having Ray Anderson, the 50 people showed their support; new vice president for university athletics following the run, participants, friends at ASU, visit alumni in Chicago in early and families gathered at Jake’s on the Chicago alumni greeted Vice President for University Athletics Ray Anderson (fifth from May. It was great to learn more about Green for breakfast. left) during his visit to the Windy City. the vision of athletics and the upcoming In late May, the Sun Devil Athletics stadium renovation project. Caravan stopped in Flagstaff on its Beyond enjoying visits from ASU’s fourth stop of its inaugural tour. All leadership, our chapter was proud to ASU alumni and fans gathered at receive the Top Devil Award from the Majerles’ Sports Grill for a chance ASU Alumni Association. We welcomed to interact one-on-one with ASU another great class of freshmen to ASU coaching staff and administrators, at the Sun Devil Send-Off hosted at the including Sun Devil football head CubbyBear. Sun Devil football coach Todd Graham, new gymnastics now is underway, and we look forward coach René Lyst, soccer coach Kevin to meeting and greeting our newest Boyd, Vice President for University alumni to the Chicago area at Athletics Ray Anderson, and ASU game-watching events. Alumni Association President Contact: Steve Mindel, Christine Wilkinson. We also had a [email protected]. great casual outdoor mixer on Aug. 23. Thanks for all who showed up The Colorado chapter had one of their to participate! largest Pat’s Run shadow runs this spring. Colorado To get more involved in our group, Our chapter had a fantastic spring visit our home page at https://alumni. and summer, with an expanded event asu.edu/chapters/flagstaff. calendar and a growing community. We Contact: Meghan Remington, held one of our largest Pat’s Run shadow [email protected]. runs back in April, then partnered with Barrett, the Honors College, in May for an alumni happy hour networking event. In Georgia July, we sent a group of new Sun Devils Our chapter members have been down to Tempe and awarded our chapter keeping busy! On April 26, we held a scholarship at the Sun Devil Send-Off; Pat’s Run shadow run in Alpharetta, we also enjoyed time outdoors with Ga. The event attracted alumni, our summer kickball team for its veterans, and runners of all ages for second season. We closed out the season a great cause – to honor Pat Tillman. by attending a Colorado Rockies On June 22, ASU alums in the Georgia Flagstaff alumni ran in the snow in April at baseball game as well as a few Rapids area celebrated new students and their Pat’s Run shadow run! soccer games. parents at our summer Sun Devil We are looking forward to hosting Send-Off event. The day was full of the Sparky’s Touchdown Tailgate for the food, stories and laughs! In August, ASU-Colorado game in Boulder on Sept. we had our signature event where 13, and are eagerly anticipating that our we tailgated with friends and family football-related events will continue to while watching former Sun Devil grow from the 300 guests we had at Blake Eric Sogard of the Oakland A’s play Street Tavern at the end of last season. It the Atlanta Braves. We are going to has been great to see not only our local continue our Mooing Monday event, community grow, but also the entire where we treat our taste buds every state of Colorado, with the Northern and second Monday of the month to a Southern Colorado chapters starting up different Atlanta burger joint. and growing as well. We look forward to Our football game-watching conducting more events this fall events this fall will remain at Hudson The Georgia chapter held their Pat’s Run with them. Grille in Brookhaven. If you are in shadow run in Alpharetta, Ga. Contact: Shaun Bainbridge, the area, be sure to join us and meet [email protected]. other local Sun Devils. We have many 52 sun devil network

other events planned for later kickoff of undergraduate student’s sports in the fall, including weekend broadcasting internships in the Los brunches, happy hour gatherings Angeles area. and networking lunches. Join the In July, we welcomed new students “Arizona State Alumni Georgia and their families to the Sun Devil family Chapter” group on Facebook to get with Sun Devil Send-Offs that took place the latest dates, times and locations. in Westlake Village, Santa Monica and Contact: Seth Deitchman, seth. Arcadia. In early August, we went back to [email protected]. the infamous Hollywood Bowl for a picnic and enjoyed a concert featuring Gladys The LGBT Devils’ Pride Knight and Kool and the Gang. During chapter celebrated a year of LGBT Devils’ Pride that month we also hosted our annual accomplishments with a brunch in June. Thank you to all our Sun Devils outing to Dodger Stadium for a pre-game and community members who meet-n-greet with Sun Devil and Dodger made our 2013-14 year such a baseball great, Andre Ethier. success. It was great to have so Join us for a volunteer/service event at many of you at our end-of-the-year the Ronald McDonald House this fall, and celebration brunch on June 14. We don’t miss the Sun Devil football team’s are proud to announce that our return to LA to take on the USC Trojans chapter membership has increased on Oct. 4 – complete with an Alumni to 68, and that we continue Association-sponsored tailgate before expanding our presence both on the game! campus and in our community. For more information on the LA Visit us at alumni.asu.edu/ Chapter and these events, visit alumni. chapters/lgbt-devils-pride for asu.edu/chapters/los-angeles. The Los Angeles chapter will be information on all of our upcoming Contact: Eddie DeVall, [email protected]. hosting a volunteer service event mixers, chapter meetings, ASU at a local Ronald McDonald House football game-watching events, this fall. Nonprofit Professionals homecoming festivities, and programs planned for fall 2014. This was our club’s first year, and Contact: Gabriel Escontrías, Jr., together we made it a success! We had the [email protected]. opportunity to put our ideas into practice and get a good feel for what worked best. Starting in September, we will be Los Angeles having networking mixers targeted to Our chapter members were professionals in the nonprofit sector. very active this summer. We co- Our club brings together alumni hosted an event with the Walter from all degree programs and academic Cronkite School of Journalism disciplines that have an interest in and Mass Communication, where the nonprofit sector and a passion to Proud incoming Sun Devil local Cronkite alums and guests serve their community. For more students pose at the Sun Devil gathered at ASU’s California Center information, visit alumni.asu.edu/ Send-Off hosted by the Greater Philadelphia chapter. in Santa Monica to celebrate the chapters/nonprofit-professionals. Contact: Robyn Mclaughlin, Nonprofit. [email protected].

Greater Philadelphia The Philly Sun Devils would like to wish good luck to all of the students starting their first semester at ASU! We met so many wonderful students at our Sun Devil Send-Off this summer, which was graciously hosted once again by ASU alum Jim Shaughnessy and his wife, Patti. Football season is here! Join us to watch every game at Tavern on Broad, located at 200 S. Broad Street in Center City Philadelphia. We’ll have official ASU The Nonprofit Professionals alumni club will host networking T-shirts to give away and other Sun Devil mixers starting in September that are open to all professionals in the nonprofit sector. memorabilia as the season goes on. Follow us on Facebook at Facebook. com/PhillySunDevils for info about all of 53

School of Sustainability Twin Cities alumni hosted a Sun Devil Send-Off for Minnesota students Dean Christopher Boone. headed to ASU. our events, including the Pac-12 Alumni Brunch Club, game-watching events and Twin Cities W. P. Carey School PAC The Stockings! Twin Cities alumni were out and about of Business Contact: Fernando Torres, this past summer at a number of our Our chapter heated things up over the [email protected]. chapter events! The Lake Minnetonka summer with several fun and exciting Boat Cruise, our signature event of the opportunities for alumni involvement! School of Sustainability year, was held in June. We had a great In May, our new grad mixer provided gathering of alumni on the Elixir as we current alumni to the opportunity to In April, we hosted our first regional cruised around Lake Minnetonka and welcome the incoming members from the networking mixer in Washington, D.C., enjoyed a beautiful Minnesota evening on class of 2014 at the Devil’s Advocate in where we had 15 in attendance. Alumni the water. Tempe. The networking continued in June were able to discuss current issues at the In July, we welcomed incoming with an event in Central Phoenix at St. mixer with School of Sustainability Dean freshmen and their parents to the Sun Francis. In July, W. P. Carey alumni came Christopher Boone. A second regional Devil family at our Sun Devil Send-Off. together to enjoy a Diamondback’s game networking mixer in San Francisco Parents and students alike were excited to outing at Chase Field! attracted 20 attendees, including Sun connect with the local alumni, each other With Homecoming festivities Devil alums and two EPA representatives. and with ASU at this great annual event. approaching right around the corner, We hope to host more out-of-state events Good luck to the class of 2018! we invite all business school alumni to this fall and next spring. Football season is underway, but don’t attend our annual Alumni Hall of Fame Our spring 2014 Salute to Graduates watch the games alone! Join us at the Reception on Thursday, Oct. 30 at the event had more than 60 attendees, Lyons Pub in downtown Minneapolis each McCord Hall Plaza, and our Homecoming including new and current alumni, their week to cheer on our Sun Devils! Stay Block Party on Saturday, Nov. 1, on family, and friends. A special thank you to connected with us on our website, alumni. the Old Main Lawn at ASU’s Tempe everyone who helped with that event. asu.edu/chapters/twin-cities. campus. Don’t miss out on the fun - We are proud to announce that the Contact: Kate Lyons, look for a complete listing of upcoming SOS Job Shadowing Program was a [email protected]. business alumni events at http://alumni. huge success! The program hosted eight wpcarey.asu.edu. current SOS students shadowing eight Contact: Theresa DeLaere, alumni at their workplace. It will continue [email protected]. during the 2014-15 academic year. Our annual alumni reception will once again take place during the night before Homecoming, and we will have a tent at the Homecoming Block Party. After a successful beginning in May, our chapter is planning to host a monthly alumni volunteer project with the Escalante Community Garden, in which School of Sustainability alumni and students will participate in a community project while educating others on sustainability. Contact: Stephanie Quintero, [email protected]. The W. P. Carey School of Business will join many other alumni groups at the Homecoming 2014 Block Party on Nov. 1. class notes Extending the currency Boosting the best Creating a new sound of power and brightest

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Extending the currency of power Elizabeth Vazquez ’94 B.A.

Most entrepreneurs don’t launch ventures with the intent of putting themselves out of business. But when you found a nonprofit devoted to increasing access to markets for women-owned businesses, it makes sense to aim for obsolescence.

“My goal is to make our work unnecessary in my lifetime,” explains Elizabeth Vazquez, CEO and co-founder of WEConnect International, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that helps female entrepreneurs succeed in global value chains. Vazquez was born in Mexico but was raised in Arizona by a struggling single mom who put herself through ASU at night. Her career has long focused on empowering women, she says. “I always wondered what (my) life would have been like if my mom and other women like her had the basic resources they needed to consistently provide for their families,” she explains. While entrepreneurship may not be the answer for all women, “those who want to start and grow a business should have easy access to resources,” Vazquez notes. She credits her political science training at ASU and two transformational summer internships with shaping her understanding of “how power is acquired and used, and why money is such an important instrument to understand as a currency of power.” These experiences formed her insights on what is needed for more women to be empowered. So after earning a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from Tufts University in 1996, Vazquez began her economic development playing-field-leveling career: first helping to organize the Global Conference on Women Entrepreneurs for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1996, then co-founding TradeBuilders, a company that hosted the world’s first “virtual trade missions,” in 1999. After that, she joined Quantum Leaps, a nonprofit accelerating the global development of women’s enterprises. It was there, as executive director, that Vazquez began working with the multinational companies that helped to “incubate” WEConnect International, which was officially incorporated in 2009. Today, WEConnect International focuses on improving global supplier diversity by helping women compete for contracts that normally are awarded to companies owned by men. Why this niche? “While the United States is experienced in promoting contract opportunities to underutilized business communities, it is almost unheard of outside of the United States,” Vazquez says. With Vazquez at the helm, WEConnect International is likely to change all of that. Despite being a daunting task, Vazquez is up for the challenge. “I’ve met thousands of women business owners who care deeply about their companies and their communities,” she says, “And when they share their stories with me I gain wisdom, strength, and humility, knowing that our work together is not easy, but important,” she says.

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Max Schwimmer ’11 B.Mus. (left) and Joseph Abad ’09 M.M. (right), members of a Hartford, Conn., chamber ensemble named Asylum Quartet, announced that the group was the first saxophone quartet to win Grand Prize at the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston, Mass.

2010s ♦ Lauren Kyger ’13 B.A., a former intern at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., is part of a four-member journalism team that received Mark Bartschi ’11 B.S.D. the George Polk Award for Business Reporting for joined the board of directors of the exposé “After the Meltdown.” Hope’s Haven, an organization that assists critically ill children and their Mark Naufel ’13 B.S., director of new media for families in Ventura County, Calif. the Arizona Republican Party and a graduate student at ASU, was appointed by Governor Brewer as a student regent on the Arizona Board of Regents.

Sara Sams ’13 M.F.A., faculty associate in creative writing at ASU, is a program leader and poetry Jeff Kunowski ’11 B.A., founder and vice Ray Chung ’10 M.Ed. was accepted into teacher in the newly established la Phoenikera president of sales and marketing for Illumin8 ASU’s doctoral program in educational leadership Writer’s Guild in Phoenix. Outdoor Media, was named the Young Entrepreneur and innovation. of Year by the Arizona Small Business Administration. Brandan Zaucha ’13 B.L.S., is the creative director Illumin8 was established in 2010 with support from 2000s of the recently launched Underground Cellar, an an ASU Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative grant online business offering competitive pricing, storage and is now affiliated with MK Solutions Group, Eddie Chang ’02 B.S., partner; Alon Shnitzer and delivery of prestigious artisan wines. which Kunowski helped form. MK Solutions ’02 B.I.S., senior managing partner; and ♦John provides technology solutions for sports and Kobierowski ’93 B.S., senior managing partner, Breanne Lott ’12 B.A. is a community health entertainment venues. form a solid Sun Devil presence at ABI Multifamily, a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, where brokerage and advisory firm in Phoenix. she focuses on HIV and its impact in the community. Jessie McDonough ’11 B.A., formerly a reporter As a member of Peace Corps Ethiopia’s Gender and and news anchor in South Bend, Ind., joined the Nedda Gales ’09 B.S., ’12 J.D.; ♦Katherine Development Committee, she organized a weekend Action News team in Jacksonville, Fla. Brown ’08 J.D.; Dana Hooper ’04 J.D.; and Action for Gender Equality Summit for volunteers Katherine Swenson ’08 J.D., all attorneys in and youth from across Ethiopia to address pressing Masha Shmukler ’11 J.D., an attorney in the the Phoenix office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, were issues of gender equality that impact community Phoenix office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, was included in the 2014 Super Lawyers list of Southwest health efforts. included in the 2014 Super Lawyers list of Southwest Rising Stars. Rising Stars. Alexandra Ncube ’12 B.A. was cast as Lauren Bailey ’02 B.A., ’02 B.A.; Wyatt M. Nabulungi, the leading female role, in the national Nancy Sirianni ’11 Ph.D., previously assistant Bailey ’97 B.A., ’00 J.D.; Craig DeMarco ’96 tour of Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon.” Her professor of marketing at Texas Christian University, B.A.; and Kris DeMarco ’89 B.A. are partners with first appearance in the role was Feb. 25, at accepted a position as assistant professor of Upward Projects, LLC, Inc., which was among the Baltimore’s Hippodrome. marketing in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business finalists for two 2014 Food Awards from the Arizona at Northeastern University. Restaurant Association. Mark Sneen ’12 M.A., formerly resort manager at Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, accepted a Lynda Anderson ’10 M.L.S., previously senior Caleb Barclay ’09 B.S.D. developed Splicity, a position as hotel manager of the Palace Hotel in manager of human resources with Chandler-Gilbert story telling app for iPhone. The app leads users San Francisco. Community College, accepted a position as director through a video creation process and produces of human resources at Columbus State Community 17-second video stories that can be shared on College in Columbus, Ohio. Twitter and Facebook. 56 class notes Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson ’09 M.A. was selected among the 22 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2014. This fellowship includes a 12-month award of $25,000 in support of doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose research addresses questions of ethical and religious values.

Nicki Myers ’07 B.I.S. was recently crowned Mrs. Colorado 2014.

♦Michael Angulo ’06 B.S., Salt River Project employee and chair of the scholarship committee for ASU’s Hispanic Business Alumni Chapter, received a 2014 SRP Presidents’ Volunteer Spirit Award in Lauren Elliot Stine ’03 B.A., ’03 B.S., recognition of his efforts to address a significant ’06 J.D. and Michael S. Catlett ’02 B.S., community need. attorneys in the Phoenix offices of the Quarles & Brady law firm, were ♦Laurence Schiffman ’06 B.S., a wealth included in the 2014 Super Lawyers management advisor with Northwestern Mutual list of Southwest Rising Stars. Wealth Management Company in Denver, earned the Certified Financial Planner designation.

Tiffany Miller ’05 M.S., ’05 M.B.A., previously with GoDaddy.com, accepted a position as director of business development with Kenshoo, a Facebook strategic preferred marketing developer. ♦Rachel Brockway ’07 M.B.A. Previously an account executive, Brockway Jennifer Hammer ’04 B.S., associate vice was promoted to senior account executive president and legal counsel for the Illinois Chamber with HMA Public Relations in Phoenix. of Commerce (Springfield office), was re-elected to the Board of Governors of the Illinois State Bar Association for a second, three-year term.

Sara Wilson ’04 M.A., formerly an interpretive planner with the St. Joseph (Mo.) Museums, accepted a position with that organization as its executive director.

Andrew Holycross ’02 Ph.D., a biology professor at Mesa Community College, completed a hike ♦James Rough ’00 B.S., along the north side of the Grand Canyon, a journey associate director of Navigant Consulting, Inc. of more than 500 miles. The 65-day journey was in Phoenix, Rough was elected treasurer of the accomplished in one trip and, in combination with Arizona Chapter of the Association of Certified earlier hikes on the south side of the canyon, made Fraud Examiners. He also was elected to a Holycross the third person documented to have hiked three-year term on the Valley Youth Theatre the length of Grand Canyon on both sides. board of directors. Marianne LeGreco ’02 M.A., ’07 Ph.D., associate professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, was included in the Triad Business Journal’s 2014 40 under Forty listing.

Abdullah Al-Bargi ’01 M.T.E.S.L, ’06 Ph.D., vice dean of development at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was named an official reviewer for the Commission on English Language Program ♦Fernando Torres ’05 B.S.E., Accreditation (CEA), a U.S.-based accreditation a site manufacturing manager at Green agency. In this capacity, he may visit and review Tweed & Company, was elected to English language programs worldwide that seek the board of directors of the American compliance with CEA standards. Helicopter Museum. Cynthia Bejarano ’01 Ph.D., a criminal justice professor at New Mexico State University, was named among the 2014 Regents Professors at that university. ♦Ryan Alan Hanning ’01 B.A. was appointed 57 assistant vice president for strategic partnerships and director of cultural advancement for the University of Mary in Tempe, Ariz.

Joseph DeSchryver ’00 M.B.A., ’00 M.H.S.A., CEO of Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, was appointed to the CenCal Health board. Sun Devils! Get exclusive hotel deals here! Mark D. Kranz ’00 M.Arch., a design director at the Phoenix office of SmithGroupJJR, was Are you heading back to ASU or Arizona for a big promoted to vice president in that firm. He game, graduation or catching up with old friends? specializes in complex, sustainable academic Check out the ASU Alumni Travel Portal for local hotel deals teaching and research facilities. exclusive to ASU alumni. Visit: alumni.asu.edu/travel-portal

♦Jenny Holsman Tetreault ’00 B.S., corporate department colloquium for electrical and counsel with Rural/Metro Corp., was recognized mechanic engineering students at Pennsylvania by the Phoenix Business Journal by inclusion in State University. the publication’s 2014 Top Dynamic Women in Business list. ♦Geoff Rephart ’99 B.I.S. accepted a position as executive director of the new Pulmonary Sharon Wallace ’00 M.S., previously public Hypertension Association-Midwest Chapter, which services staff officer on the Tonto National Forest, encompasses Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri Henry A. (Hank) Alviani ’93 D.M.A., accepted a position as deputy forest supervisor and Indiana. formerly director of choral and vocal music studies of the Mt. Hood National Forest that is east of Stephen Booze ’98 B.S., formerly chief at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, accepted an Portland, Ore. information officer of Appointment-Plus software appointment as associate professor of music and ♦Judy C. Walruff ’00 Ph.D., a faculty associate in Scottsdale, Ariz., was promoted to chief director of choral studies at Kutztown University at ASU, was elected president of the Arizona operating officer at the company. of Pennsylvania. Family Health Partnership in Phoenix. Tim Crain ’98 Ph.D., assistant professor in the Genocide and Holocaust Studies program at Seton 1990s Hill University, was named as that university’s director of the National Catholic Center for Laura Capello ’97 B.A., president and CEO of Holocaust Education. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona; ♦Mary Ellen Dalton ’99 M.B.A., ’08 Ph.D. president Gregg Murset ’98 B.S., founder and CEO of My and CEO of Health Services Advisory Group, Inc.; Job Chart, received the 2014 Financial Education Eileen Klein ’98 M.P.A, president of the Arizona Instructor of the Year award from the National ♦ Board of Regents; and Adelaia Severson Financial Educators Council. The award recognizes ’95 M.M.C., ’06 Ph.D., president and CEO of individuals who have demonstrated commitment Bushtex, Inc., were recognized by the Phoenix to the financial literacy movement. Business Journal among the 2014 Top Dynamic Women in Business. Wendy Riddell ’98 J.D., an attorney with Berry Riddell & Rosensteel, was appointed to the ♦ Sandra O. (Ortland) Erickson ’99 J.D., Maricopa County Board of Adjustment. She was an attorney in private practice, was elected to included in Chambers USA 2014 in recognition of the board of directors of the Arizona Family her work in zoning and land use. Health Partnership. Greg Handel ’97 M.M., ’07 D.M.A., previously ♦Mark Courtney ’93 B.S., Julie Huntley ’99 Ph.D., formerly with IBM, associate director of the School of Creative and director of research and associate professor of accepted an appointment as dean of the College Performing Arts at Northwestern State University, Emergency Medicine in the Feinberg School of of Business at Oral Roberts University. was named director of the university’s Mrs. H.D. Medicine at Northwestern University, received Dear School of Creative and Performing Arts. a 2014 Mentor of the Year Award from the Ravi Jethra ’99 M.B.A., senior marketing university’s Medical Faculty Council. manager with Endress+Hauser, spoke about instrumentation for energy businesses at a 58 class notes ♦Javier Cárdenas ’99 B.A.E., Director of Barrow Concussion Network at the Barrow Neurological Institute and director of the B.R.A.I.N.S. Clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, was recognized by the Phoenix Business Journal by inclusion in the publication’s list of the 25 most admired Phoenix leaders of 2014.

James L. Ugalde ’99 B.S., ’03 J.D., an attorney in the Phoenix office of the Quarles & Brady law firm, was included in the 2014 Super Lawyers list of Southwest Rising Stars.

Richmond J. Vincent, Jr. ’96 B.S., ’02 M.B.A. Vice president of workforce development for Goodwill of Central Arizona, received the Economic Development Distinguished by Excellence award for Workforce Practitioner of the Year. The award was presented by the Arizona Association for Economic Development to honor Vincent’s significant contributions to Arizona in support of economic development over the past year. Joseph Falasco ’98 B.S. An attorney in the Little Rock, Ark., office of Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC, became a managing member of the law firm.

Spencer Tew ’97 B.A., formerly with the Tew Cardenas law firm, joined Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, where he will continue to practice in the areas of commercial litigation, construction and real estate litigation.

♦Gregory Titus ’96 B.S. Accepted a position as vascular and interventional radiologist with Medical ♦ Diagnostic Imaging Group/Vascular and Nachie Marquez ’85 B.A. Interventional Physicians. Previously communications and public affairs director for the city of Chandler (Ariz.), accepted a position with Chandler as its assistant city manager. Marni Kuyl ’91 B.S.N., ’95 M.S., formerly public health division manager in Washington County’s 59 (Ore.) Health and Human Services Department, was promoted to director of the department.

Jeff Nuzum ’91 B.A., previously in executive positions at SAP and Oracle, accepted a position as senior vice president of worldwide sales with Euclid.

1980s Lesa Storey ’86 J.D., ♦David Cleary ’84 B.S. and John Cummerford ’80 B.A., attorneys in the Phoenix office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, were Rick Schwarz ’95 B.S.L.A., director of included in the 2014 list of Super Lawyers. Storey landscape architecture with In2it Studio, LLC, and was included also in the Southwest Super Lawyers Joe Schwarz ’08 B.S.D., are participating in the Top 25 Arizona Women list. nationally televised television show “Brother vs. Brother.” The show premiered on June 8. David Auerbach ’89 B.A.E.S.E., currently chair of the Science Department at Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, N.H., resigned this position to become the director of the Charles C. Gates Invention and Innovation program at the same school. Auerbach is a Siemens STEM Institute Fellow and recipient of the 2014 National Science Teachers Association/Vernier Technology Award.

Quinn DeAngelis ’89 B.S., an attorney in Scottsdale, Ariz., received certification by the State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization in estate Byron O. Pope ’86 B.S., and trust law. city clerk for Beverly Hills, Calif., was elected second vice president of the City Clerk’s Junyong Zhu ’88 M.S., team leader with U.S. Association of California and will become Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, received president of the organization in 2015. the 2014 Research and Development Technical Award and William H. Aiken Prize from TAPPI’s International Research Management Committee. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments or contributions that advance the technology of the paper and related industries in the field of research and development. Brett Wallerstedt ’97 B.S., former Sun Devil Chris Bissonnette ’93 B.S. was appointed a leader football player, accepted a position as senior account of Summit Wealth Management, a subsidiary of Bridget Costello ’87 B.F.A., previously director executive for corporate partnerships with the Arizona Guardian Life Insurance Company of America located of development at Children’s Museum of Phoenix, Diamondbacks. He was employed previously as in Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif.. accepted a position as managing director for Valley associate general manager at IMG College in the Youth Theater, also located in Phoenix. metropolitan Phoenix area. Greg Robinson ’93 B.S., previously a partner at Peninsula Ventures in Redwood City, Calif., accepted ♦Diane Humetewa ’87 B.S., ’93 J.D., ASU special Rae Conelley ’96 M.Ed., previously the principal a position as general partner of 4490 Ventures in advisor to the president for American Indian Affairs, of Frontier Elementary School in the Peoria (Ariz.) Madison, Wis. was named the first American Indian woman to Unified School District, accepted a position as serve as a federal judge. She will serve in the Federal principal of the new Sunset Heights Elementary Scott Zeman ’92 B.A., ’98 Ph.D., formerly a District Court of Arizona. School in the same district. dean at St. Thomas University, was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Salve Michael J. Lacey ’87 M.A., formerly deputy Robert D. Hannafin ’94 Ph.D., previously dean Regina University. director and COO for the protection and of the College of Education, Information and administration of water rights and water supplies, Technology at Long Island University’s Post Campus Mario E. Diaz ’91 B.S., ’97 M.P.A., president was appointed by Gov. Jan Brewer as the director of in Brookville, N.Y., accepted a position as dean of the of Mario E. Diaz & Associates, LLC, was elected the Arizona Department of Water Resources. Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions to the board of directors of the Arizona Family at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. Health Partnership. Anton Nikodemus ’87 B.S., formerly president and COO of casino marketing for MGM Grand ♦Jeff Sacks ’94 B.S. was promoted to partner- Srinath Ekkad ’91 M.S., Rolls Royce Resorts, was named COO of MGM Resorts principal at Crowe Horwath LLP, where he works in Commonwealth Professor for Aerospace Propulsion International Regional Operations. risk consulting services. Systems in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, received the university’s 2014 Alumni Award for Excellence in Graduate Academic Advising. 60 class notes his extraordinary talent via national media,” Shakya said. “As a result, (he) has received a full scholarship to pursue a high school diploma at an elite school in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital.” The intellectually promising student is just one of the 22 boys and girls who have received scholarships from EduVision Foundation, a non-governmental organization he founded in 2011. The organization does much more than provide an academic foundation for the children it serves. “When the children were small, we focused on shaping them into giving and caring individuals,” stresses Shakya. All EduVision students perform volunteering service regularly – daily when possible – tutoring neighborhood kids as well as assisting in EduVision’s waste management program. “Our students have become role models in the area of social transformation, so we are offering community involvement programs to other schools,” Shakya said. Through this brand of community outreach, EduVision has touched the lives of almost 5,000 students in 15 schools and colleges. While he was earning his master’s degree in political science at ASU, Shakya participated in a number of activities that would prove valuable in launching the EduVision Foundation, including a writing a column for the State Press, working as volunteer in a national election and earning money as a teaching assistant. “I credit my reputation as a good motivational speaker to the skills that I learned during my TA days,” says Shakya. “In Boosting the best and terms of teaching, I have been greatly influenced by Dr. Michael Mitchell’s methods of motivating young students.” brightest Shakya spends a lot of time raising funds for his venture, encouraging sponsorship of individual students on EduVision’s Tumblr site and recruiting international volunteers to come Surendra Shakya ‘02 M.A. to Nepal and help students gain confidence speaking English.

He asserted that his studies at ASU had helped him see that After obtaining his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the working with the children of a country was crucial to improving United States, Nepal native Surendra Shakya returned in 2007 to the leadership of a nation. Hetauda, his home community, intent on setting up a computer “Political science helped me understand the need for good laboratory that would teach English, science and math digitally political force to build a nation,” he said. “This has influenced me and bring technical progress to the country. to make the children under my wings into honest and morally In the process of realizing this ambition, he encountered some unshakable political leaders in the community.” very bright and enthusiastic students who came from financially poor schools. He recalls that one child already had published a book about the universe’s creation while still in ninth grade By Oriana Parker, a freelance writer based in Phoenix. and wanted to study quantum physics. “We were able to reveal

♦Charles A. Wilhoite ’87 B.S., managing director Mark W. Schwartz ’83 Ph.D., executive vice Insurance in Stevens Point, Wisc. His current and national director of health care services of president and COO of Galena Biopharma, was responsibilities as general counsel and corporate Willamette Management Associates in Portland, appointed as an independent director on the secretary will be retained. Ore., was appointed to a three-year term on the Targazyme board of directors. San Francisco Federal Reserve’s Economic Advisory Council. Gregory M. Pafford ’81 B.S., a Phoenix dentist, 1970s was installed as the 105th president of the Arizona ♦Neil Giuliano ’79 B.A., ’83 M.Ed., a former Barry S. Arbuckle ’86 M.S., president and CEO of Dental Association. He is co-founder of the Phoenix mayor of Tempe, returned to the city recently to MemorialCare Health System in Long Beach, Calif., Boys & Girls Club’s Dave Pratt Dental Clinic and attend the dedication of Neil G. Giuliano Park, an received a Becker’s Healthcare 2014 Leadership active in the Arizona Dental Foundation. expanse of grassy parkland stretching from Rural Award in recognition of his contributions to his Road to the Mill Avenue bridges. The dedication took health system, hospital and community. ♦Eduardo L. Preciado ’81 B.S.C.J. announced his retirement as a section chief with U.S. Immigration place on May 10 – exactly 20 years after Giuliano Bruce Pearson ’86 M.H.S.A. was named senior and Customs Enforcement Air Operations at the was elected mayor of Tempe. vice president and CEO of Scottsdale Healthcare’s Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. His more than 25 ♦Julie Campbell ’79 B.A. is associate director Osborn campus. years in federal law enforcement included positions of communications and public affairs at Washington with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Immigration and Lee University in Lexington, Va., and the Jane Morris ’85 M.P.A., executive director of and Naturalization Service in Reno, Nev. Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport Authority, was author of two award-winning books, “The Horse recognized by the Phoenix Business Journal among ♦Ken Erler ’80 B.S. was named senior vice in Virginia: An Illustrated History” and “Studies in its list of 2014 Top Dynamic Women in Business. president and chief administrative officer at Sentry Arizona History.” It’s all about CONNECTIONS!

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23 62 class notes Creating a new sound Kimberlee Swisher ’09 B.A., ’11 M.A.

Music therapy plays an important role in medicine both for adults and children. Certified music therapists use evidence-based interventions to accomplish individualized goals with clients, such as alleviating pain, expressing feelings, enhancing memory skills, and improving interpersonal communication. Although not a music therapist herself, Kimberlee Swisher is helping to spread the benefits of music therapy by marrying it to modern technology in ways that are both imaginative and rewarding. After receiving a bachelor’s from ASU in music, Swisher pursued a graduate degree in the university’s School of Arts, Media and Engineering, which combines arts and technology by bringing together students, faculty and professionals from backgrounds such as bioengineering, psychology, dance, theatre and computer science, to search for new rehabilitation and learning systems and explore artistically how technology influences culture. “Todd Ingalls was my advisor and taught me everything I know about music technology,” says Swisher. “I was also influenced by Garth Paine, who introduced me to the idea of creating a dynamic, rather than stagnant, interactive sound experience.” Swisher extended her advocacy of using technology to enhance music therapy in late 2012 by founding Playsound Technology, a company whose goal is to find and create meaningful experiences with technology and make them available to everyone. One of Playsound’s products is a unique gesture-based interactive system, called MIST, that allows users to create music by moving their bodies through physical space. Developed for children with mild to moderate developmental disabilities, MIST has several therapeutic effects, including increased spatial and body awareness as well as greater endurance, muscle tone, balance and synchronized movement. Another computer application produced by the company, Tiny Piano, allows the user to play a piano keyboard with the click of a mouse, typing of keys, or plugging in a MIDI keyboard. The diversity inherent in the company’s current offerings is unsurprising to Swisher, who has presented at venues as varied as music therapy conferences and workshops on natural user interfaces. “Most of the technology I create involve alternate methods of music making or experiencing sound, so while the ideas mostly arise from specific client needs, their application is not limited to a specific population,” she says. Beyond her work with her company, Swisher is sharing what she knows about music technology through creating a permanent interactive sound installation at the I.D.E.A museum in Mesa and by working as an instructor in ASU’s Digital Culture degree program. At the heart of her vocation is her desire to share her love of music with as many people as possible. “I love the idea of engaging everyone in music-making practices,” she said. “I am a music teacher by heart and by trade, and I see myself always looking for new ways to integrate technology and music into my classroom and the community.”

By Oriana Parker, a freelance arts writer based in Phoenix.

Jon Pettibone '73 B.S., '76 J.D., an attorney in the Phoenix offices of the Quarles & Brady law firm, was named in the 2014 Southwest Super Lawyers Magazine.

♦Emily Burns ’65 B.A.E., ’69 M.S., ’84 J.D., an attorney, is serving a second term as president of Central Arizona Estate Planning Council, the members of which include attorneys, accountants, trust officers, financial planners and other related professionals. Southern Arizona LeadershipCouncilandaretired ♦Ronald Shoopman ’72B.S., presidentofthe 2014 Top Dynamic Women inBusiness. the PhoenixBusinessJournalamongits list ofthe of ChangingHandsBookstore, was recognizedby Gayle Shanks’74B.A. , co-founderandco-owner Women list. in theSouthwestSuperLawyers Top 25 Arizona included inthe2014listofSuperLawyersand, also, in thePhoenixofficeofGreenberg Traurig, LLP, was ♦Rebecca Lynne Burnham’77B.S., anattorney position asdistrictdeputyofthatorganization. and GeothermalResources’District4, accepteda manager fortheCaliforniaDivisionofOil, Gas Dan Wermiel ’78M.S., formerlytechnicalprogram Scottsdale,First Westernpresident, Trustin Ariz. ♦Trish Stark’78B.S., ’79M.B.A. was promotedto births sun devilmarriages sun devil Melissa (Herrington)OgleandTim Ogle Adam ScottUnderwood Mia IsabellaAlford Michael Tetreault Connor Tennyson Lily AnnetteJanda Regents byGov. Jan Brewer. Air Force, was appointedtothe Arizona Boardof brigadier general whoservedwiththeUnitedStates be mountedinNew York Citythisfall. “The BergePlays: A Celebration ofSisters,” thatwill Emeritus Collegetodirecttworelatedone-act plays, a researchandcreativitygrant fromthe ASU research ondirectingperiodworks. Shealsoreceived Choreographers. The fellowshipwillsupporther Fellowship fromtheSocietyofDirectorsand is co-recipientoftheinaugural GeorgeC. Wolfe JoAnn Yeoman Tongret ’66B.A., ’96M.A. of SuperLawyers. Traurig’s Phoenix office, was includedinthe2014list Gil Rudolph’67B.A., anattorneywithGreenberg 1960s March 23, 2014, inSandusky, Ohio. Raymond Schuck’06Ph.D. on to Monica Weir ’02B.S. and Rory XavierSchuckwas born March 4, 2014. and ♦RyanKeating ’03B.A.E. on ♦Trish Thiele-Keating ’03B.A. Lucille Joy Keating was bornto on Oct. 5, 2013. M.B.A. andDaleJanda ’10B.S. to BriannaJanda ’06B.S., ’12 Janda was born Lily Annette Alford onJan. 3, 2014. Brett Alford ’96B.S. andAmber Isabella Alford Mia Florence, Ariz. 14, 2013, atthe Windmill Winery in and TimOgleweremarriedonDec. Melissa (Herrington)Ogle’05B.S.E. Lucille JoyKeating was bornto been dedicatedtobenefitothers. of hislifemilitaryandcivilianservicethathas Bloys Post 2ofthe American Legion, inrecognition the Tempeat William the AmericanAward received ♦Ralph Lingerfelt’52B.A.E., ’55M.A.E. 1950s ♦ Active, dues-payingmemberofthe ASU Alumni Association M.A. onFeb. 27, 2014. ♦Colin Tetreault ’05B.A., ’10 Holsman Tetreault ’00B.S. and Tetreault was bornto♦Jenny Connor TennysonMichael Jan. 23, 2014, inPhoenix. B.A. andCarmenUnderwoodon born toScottUnderwood’91 Adam ScottUnderwoodwas Tempe, AZ85287-3702 Attn: ClassNotes,P.O. Box 873702, Post Office:ASUAlumniAssociation, Email: [email protected] Online: alumni.asu.edu/classnotes How tosubmitclassnotes Rory XavierSchuck 63

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